Politics of the Gift: Exchanges in Poststructuralism Hardback - 2011

The work of Gerald Moore offers a cutting-edge perspective on French thought of the second half of the 20th century and the so-called 'philosophers of difference', especially pertinent in light of the devastating crisis of consumer capitalism revealed since 2008.

Bernard Stiegler, author of Technics and Time and co-founder of Ars Industrialis.

Moore covers a truly astounding range of figures. This is an important contribution showing how various French theorists have for several decades been attempting to approach questions of politics from a perspective other than political economy.

Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College

Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates a period of thought in which philosophy reinvents itself around poststructuralist theory. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept, from its origins in phenomenology and the social sciences, through psychoanalysis and deconstruction, Moore shows its decisive importance for a shift in our understanding of the relationship between philosophy, politics and political economy.

Gerald Moore lectures in French literature and philosophy at Wadham College and University College, University of Oxford. He has published on Michel Houellebecq, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, and translated work by writers including Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault.