The Price of Truth by Marcel Hnaff
Without stigmatizing commercial activity, this book takes a philosophical and anthropological look at the universe of the gift, debt, and money in the West from ancient Greece to the present in order to examine how and why knowledge has long been assumed to be priceless.
"Marcel Henaff 's book provides much material to ponderHe does a masterful job in looking at the exchange in various forms. . . This book provides substantial insights for the social scientist trying to understand how society is constructed through various modes of exchange. . . [T]o the student of religion who is interested in sacrifice and what this tells us about the ways human relate to relgious deities. . . [F]or economists and those who study economic policy. . .To the academian, this book raises profound challenges as one attempts to teach."—Harley Schreck, Missiology
"Among the numerous studies of the 'gift'—ceremonial gift-giving as distinct from exchange and from charity—Marcel Hénaff's wide-ranging book is the best. Its empirical richness is disciplined by a rigorous conceptual framework. This is one of the most important philosophical works of our time, full of inspiring ideas for anthropologists, sociologists, theologians, and historians."—Dr. Hans Joas, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt, Germany, and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
"I owe to the work of Marcel Hénaff entitled The Price of Truth the idea of resolving what he calls 'the enigma of ceremonial reciprocal gift giving' by resorting to the idea of symbolic mutual recognition."—Paul Ricoeur, Course of Recognition (2005)
"This rich work by an eminent scholar offers a stunning thesis about the foundations of the social bond. Deeply at home in a variety of disciplines, Hénaff never compromises on rigor. His book is elegantly written and extremely well translated."—Rodolphe Gasché, SUNY, Buffalo
"Priceless truths about the price of truth."—Michel Serres, of the Académie Française
"A magisterial work."—Claude Lévi-Strauss, Esprit Magazine (2004)
"Among the numerous studies of the 'gift'—ceremonial gift-giving as distinct from exchange and from charity—Marcel Hénaff's wide-ranging book is the best. Its empirical richness is disciplined by a rigorous conceptual framework. This is one of the most important philosophical works of our time, full of inspiring ideas for anthropologists, sociologists, theologians, and historians."—Dr. Hans Joas, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt, Germany, and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
"I owe to the work of Marcel Hénaff entitled The Price of Truth the idea of resolving what he calls 'the enigma of ceremonial reciprocal gift giving' by resorting to the idea of symbolic mutual recognition."—Paul Ricoeur, Course of Recognition (2005)
"This rich work by an eminent scholar offers a stunning thesis about the foundations of the social bond. Deeply at home in a variety of disciplines, Hénaff never compromises on rigor. His book is elegantly written and extremely well translated."—Rodolphe Gasché, SUNY, Buffalo
"Priceless truths about the price of truth."—Michel Serres, of the Académie Française
"A magisterial work."—Claude Lévi-Strauss, Esprit Magazine (2004)
In 2002, The Price of Truth was awarded the Grand Prize for Philosophy by the Académie Française and the Prize for Philosophy by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
Marcel Hénaff is Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Sade, the Invention of the Libertine Body (1999), Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology (1998), and Public Space and Democracy (2001).
Marcel Hénaff is Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Sade, the Invention of the Libertine Body (1999), Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology (1998), and Public Space and Democracy (2001).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804760829 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804760829 |
| Title | The Price of Truth |
| Author | Marcel Hnaff |
| Series | Cultural Memory In The Present |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 2010-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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