The Price of Truth Gift, Money, and Philosophy |
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| Author:
| Hénaff, Marcel
Hénaff, Marcel |
| Translator:
| Morhange, Jean-Louis |
| Series title: | Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-6081-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.