AUTHOR APPROVED The work of Gerald Moore offers a cutting-edge perspective on French thought of the second half of the 20th century and the so-called 'philosophers of difference', especially pertinent in light of the devastating crisis of consumer capitalism revealed since 2008. Bernard Stiegler, author of Technics and Time and co-founder of Ars Industrialis. Marcel Mauss's Essai sur le don (1923-4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Lacan, Deleuze and Derrida, to name only a few, return to the concept of the gift explicitly and repeatedly. Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the gift drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. By tracing the creation of the gift as a concept, from its origins in philosophy and the social sciences, right up to the present, Moore shows its central importance for a poststructuralist understanding of the relation between philosophy and politics. Key features offers a panoramic new perspective on the relationship between poststructuralist philosophy and politics includes in-depth readings of the concepts of the gift and exchange in the thought of Heidegger, Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida and Nancy presents a new account of politics in terms of the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of sacrificing the gift Gerald Moore teaches French literature and philosophy at Wadham College, University of Oxford. He has published on Michel Houellebecq, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida, among others, and translated work by writers including Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault.