The Work and the Gift

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One - The End(s) of Work
1. Defining a Crisis
The Double Necessity of Work
Marxism and the Soviet Disaster
Hannah Arendt's Critique
"The Great Work Begins"
2. Free-Market Futurism
On the "Postindustrial"
Alvin Toffler and Peter Drucker
The "Autonomous" Workforce
Corporate Culture and Corporate Cant
3. Liberal Nostalgia
After Work
Robert L. Heilbroner's World of Work
4. Marxism and Post-Marxism
Toward a Liberation of Work
André Gorz: Reclaiming Work
Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Autonomist Marxism
Part Two - The Work of the Gift
5. From Restricted to General Economy—and Back Again?
Of Sinking
Rethinking the Gift
General Economics in Retrospect and Prospect
6. Anthropologies of the Gift
Marcel Mauss: The Gift Economy and Its Other
Knowledge and/of the Gift
Pierre Bourdieu: From Gift Economy to Cultural Capital
Georges Bataille: Beyond Anthropology
7. Charity and Welfare: The Gifts as Work
The End of Welfare
Welfare and Work
Marvin Olasky and Gertrude Himmelfarb
Tocqueville on Pauperism
The "New Philanthropy"
8. Theologies of Culture: The Work as Gift
The Gift of Art
On the "Work Ethic"
Kant and Beyond
Hayek on "Liberty"
Part Three - Toward a Community of "Unworking"
9. Arts and Ends
Reopened Questions
Unworking the Work
Plagiarism and Potlatch
Maurice Blanchot and "Unworking"
10. Marxism and the General Economy
On Means and Ends
Marxism at Its Limit
Finitude and Community
Notes
References
Index