Starting with those requirements, Derrida proposes a critical reading of Marcel Mauss's The Gift (1990), a writing where the obligation to give, receive, and reciprocate established by ethnographic inquiries is understood as the core of the gift relationship. To escape this logic, for the gift to be truly a gift, Derrida claims, the giver would have to be unaware that he is giving, and the receiver unaware of the giver's identity. The aporia of the gift according to Derrida can be summed up as follows: Giving is always understood as a relationship between a giver and a receiver, an exchange that generates a debt and in the final analysis remains within the confines of economic reciprocity in this, the gift becomes the opposite of what it claims to be. Moving beyond Mauss' interwar writings, the article traces the genealogy of his later reflections to his involvement in prewar debates about chartered companies.This chapter discusses Jacques Derrida's Given Time (1992), which presents an aporia of the gift that has made its mark and has occasioned many commentaries and a few refutations. Mauss made this relation between colonial policy and the ethnology of the gift explicit in his book, The Nation. the duty to give, the duty to receive, and the duty to give back) served as key references in the French debate about the relationships between metropolises and colonies in the interwar period. This article demonstrates that the three obligations which Mauss identified as the basis of a customary law of international economic relations (i.e. This article traces the discursive associations between Mauss' anthropological concepts ("gift," "exchanges of prestations," and "generosity") and the reformist program of French socialists who pushed for an "altruistic" colonial policy in the interwar period. Marcel Mauss published his essay The Gift (1925) in the context of debates about the European sovereign debt crises and the economic growth experienced by the colonies. Centre for Trade and Economic Integration.Centre for International Environmental Studies.Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding.
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