The Spirit of Exchange and Promise : Hau and SOCIAL contract

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Volume:22 Issue:88
The Spirit of Exchange and Promise : Hau and SOCIAL contract

The Spirit of Exchange and Promise : Hau and SOCIAL contract

Authors : Ebru KAYAALP

Pages : 147-156

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Publication Date : 2016-11-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This article compares the gift society to the social contract society, as discussed respectively by Marcel Mauss and Thomas Hobbes, in an attempt to further an understanding of how sociability and social totality are constructed through gift exchanges and promises among people. Mauss, like Hobbes, suggests that the primitive order is an absence of law, in which people live under conditions of fear and hostility. Yet, for Mauss it is the gift exchange that would bring peace, while for Hobbes it is the presence of a sovereign. In both cases, peace is vastly fascilitated through gift exchange or social contract. This article argues that the self-reflexive character of gift exchange and covenant consequently reconstructs the reality of society, concluding that although there is an inherit fragility in both societies, they are being fantasized as coherent, unified and homogenous totalities through gift exchange or social contract.
Keywords : Mauss, Hobbes, Hau, Social Contract

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