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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde

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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

by Lewis Hyde

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This classic work explores the mystery of giving through anthropological examples, and extends that analysis to explain artistic creation as essentially a giving, altruistic activity. (

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Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.

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