Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in Shakespeare and Marlowe (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies) free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Sean Lawrence

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0820704482
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Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self-interest.
The prologue reads Marlowes Dr. Faustus to show how the play aligns gift and grace, depicting Faustuss famous bond as the instrument simultaneously of reciprocal exchange and of damnation. In the introduction, the author frames his argument theoretically by placing Marcel Mausss classic essay, The Gift, into dialogue with Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur to sketch two very different understandings of gift-giving. In the first, described by Mauss, the gift becomes a covert form of exchange. Though Mauss contrasts the gift economy with the market economy, his description of the gift economy nevertheless undermines his own project of discovering in it a basis for social solidarity. In the second understanding of gift exchange, derived from the philosophy of Levinas, the gift expresses the radical asymmetry of ethical concern.
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