Soul food

December 15, 2007

At the beginning of November Canongate said that the first 100 people who registered on THE GIFT site would receive a free copy of Lews Hyde’s The Gift. All you had to do in return was pledge to make a gift today. I posted about it here, after finding out about the whole thing on … Read More

GIFT day and Lewis Hyde’s The Gift

November 2, 2007

Over on Dovegreyreader’s blog today she writes about GIFT day, organised by Canongate for the publication of Lewis Hyde’s book, The Gift, which argues that we should keep some parts of our social, cultural and spiritual life out of the marketplace. He believes that the rise of capitalism has brought about the decline of the … Read More