Derrida opaquely claims that the title concept of this work is "irreducibly heterogeneous" and that it is "null" because it prevents language from "circling back to its meaning.
Derrida opaquely claims that the title concept of this work is "irreducibly heterogeneous" and that it is "null" because it prevents language from "circling back to its meaning." The third chapter of this work analyzes the Roman legal concept of nexum to conclude that the Greco-Roman culture was the only ancient culture that did not have an "outmoded morality." It analyzes the Maori's distinction between tonga and oloa, which are objects distinguished on their permanence. This work claims that the title construct is useful in allowing people to distribute the "superabundance of happiness" and rid evil by sacrificing to good gods at the same time. It also proposes several examples of total presentation in less multivalent cultures. Subtitled "the form and reason of exchange in primitive society" it expands upon Malinowski's study of the Kula Ring. For 10 points, name this work of Marcel Mauss.
Derrida opaquely claims that the title concept of this work is "irreducibly heterogeneous" and that it is "null" because it prevents language from "circling back to its meaning.
The Gift or Essai Sur Le Don