Altruism, Gifts and Symbolic Exchange: From Comte, to Durkheim, Mauss and Bourdieu (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004422469)

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.

Author: Philippe Steiner
ISBN-10: 9004422463
ISBN-13: 9789004422469
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2025
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.69d