The price of truth : gift, money, and philosophy
Title:
The price of truth : gift, money, and philosophy
Author:
Henaff, Marcel
Morhange, Jean-Louis, 1956-
Feenberg-Dibon, Anne-Marie, 1943-
ISBN:
9780804760829
Uniform Title:
Prix de la verite. English
Publication Information:
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010
Physical Description:
xiv, 466 p. ; 23 cm
Series:
Cultural memory in the present
Series Title:
Cultural memory in the present
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-458) and indexes.
"Originally published in French as Le prix de la verite."
Abstract:
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.
Subject:
| Economic anthropology |
| Gifts -- Philosophy |
| Money -- Philosophy |
| Value -- Philosophy |
| Exchange -- Philosophy |
Summary:
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.