The Work and the Gift

by Scott Cutler Shershow

Book Overview

The Work and the Gift considers how working and giving are taken for opposites and revealed as each other's ghostly shadow. We ask ourselves, for instance, to work for a wage and a living, dooming ourselves forever to the curse of daily toil; and yet we imagine the magnum opus or the oeuvre as a labor of love. We ask ourselves to give with no thought of return; yet we still tell ourselves to give only to the deserving and only where our giving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226752569
• ISBN13: 9780226752563
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"