Are there areas that go beyond the market economy and are not subject to it?
Are there areas that go beyond the market economy and are not subject to it? Lewis Hyde, a poet, translator, essayist, and former director of the Harvard University Writing Foundation, is convinced that religion and art are not governed by the laws of the market. Our spiritual (in the broad sense of the word) life belongs to a special area of the economy — Hyde calls it the economy of the gift. To give an idea of its laws, he draws on examples from history, ethnography, folklore and modern life: images of a saving and ruining gift in the fairy tales of different peoples, marriage customs, religious prohibitions, patronage and donation, the prescription of begging in Christian and Buddhist monasticism … In a separate section of the book, Hyde analyzes the features of the psychology of creativity and self-awareness as a creator using the example of two classics of American literature, Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound.
Generation, 480 p.