Altruism, Gift and Symbolic Exchange : From Comte to Bourdieu /
Altruism, gifts and symbolic exchange refer to a vast set of practices deeply embedded in our market societies. They were successively theorized by Auguste Comte, Marcel Mauss, and Pierre Bourdieu. This book follows the outline of a history that has hitherto been glimpsed only as a series of fragmen...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Theory Workshop ;
4.
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Call Number: PZ7.S588
| Summary: | Altruism, gifts and symbolic exchange refer to a vast set of practices deeply embedded in our market societies. They were successively theorized by Auguste Comte, Marcel Mauss, and Pierre Bourdieu. This book follows the outline of a history that has hitherto been glimpsed only as a series of fragments and which needs to be reassembled in order to see its full scope. This history is structured in terms of three stages: a critique of political economy, a theoretical construction backed by empirical practices, and, finally, an assessment of the social effects of the dissemination of economic knowledge. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004741379 |