The Gift

Cooper and Taylor discuss Marcel Mauss's The Gift and its influence on symbolic exchange and death in 20th-century philosophy. They explore the concept of the gift in the critique of capital, the power dynamics of the potlatch, betrayal in Game of Thrones, reciprocity in the Olympic Games, the importance of trust in economic exchanges, the historical context of debt and taxation, sentimental value and the accrual of interest, suffering and redemption, and the significance of mice in thinkers' works.