The Gift Paradigm: Towards a Science of “total social facts”
Abstract In this essay I argue that Marcel Mauss’s “Essay on the Gift” (1925) is not only intended to inaugurate a new paradigm on the terrain of ethnology and anthropology, but at the same time to make the gift a kind of novum organum of the social sciences and of moral and political philosophy it...
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LED Edizioni Universitarie
2023-08-01
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| Series: | Elementa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Elementa/article/view/4937 |