The conference will focus the legacy of Marcel Mauss and his Essai of 1925. Starting from the observation of the paradoxical character of the gift as both free and compulsory in some archaic societies, Mauss proposed an interpretation of social relations that profoundly affected not only the social sciences, but also philosophy and theology, producing a true paradigm shift and a flourishing season of studies, of which it is now time to take stock.
The conference will focus on the phenomenon of gift and the most important categories associated with it: duty, gratuitousness, reciprocity, symbol, supererogation.
This is a hybrid event.
