Main entry:

Derrida, Jacques.

Title & Author:

Given time. I, Counterfeit money / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Peggy Kamuf.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Description:

x, 172 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Donner le temps. 1, La fausse monnaie.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- 1. The Time of the King -- 2. The Madness of Economic Reason : A Gift without Present -- 3. "Counterfeit Money" I : Poetics of Tobacco (Baudelaire, Painter of Modern Life) -- 4. "Counterfeit Money" II : Gift and Countergift, Excuse and Forgiveness (Baudelaire and the Story of the Dedication) -- "Counterfeit Money" / Charles Baudelaire.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt. Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years."--Publisher's description

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226143139 (alk. paper)
9780226143132 (alk. paper)
0226143147
9780226143149

Subject:

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Spleen de Paris.
Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950. Essai sur le don.
Essai sur le don (Mauss, Marcel)
Spleen de Paris (Baudelaire, Charles)
Gifts in literature.
Gifts.
Cadeaux dans la littérature.
Cadeaux.
Schenkingen.
Ontologie (filosofie)
Semantiek.
Literature Special subjects Gifts

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74958
Call No.: ID:92-B2360
Status: Available