From Metabolism to (Gift) Exchange
On the Propensity to Propensity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21790454 |
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| Authors | Adam R Rosenthal (0000-0002-0246-5560, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-298 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Derrida Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-8519 • E-ISSN: 1754-8500 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/drt.2024.0350 |
| OpenAlex | W4403335587 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In this paper I explore how the limitations of sociological and economic approaches to the gift can be exposed not only through deconstructive analysis, such as Jacques Derrida pursues in Given Time, vols. I & II, but also through the philological resources and biological conceptuality of ‘metabolism’. By bridging Derrida’s textual conception of survival with neurobiological and phenomenological approaches to life, I argue that what ‘gift’ names is nothing distinctly human but, rather, a possibility at the origin of any economization of differences, be they ‘textual’ or ‘biological’ in nature
Economics · Propensity score matching · History of Science and Medicine · Medicine · Philosophy and History of Science · Internal Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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