Marcel Maauss's Essai sur le don (The Gift) (1923--4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Now Gerald Moore shows how the concept of the gift both drives and illuminates the last century of French philosophy. This ambitious study engages with key poststructuralist thinkers including Heidegger, Lacan, Deleuze, Derrida as well as the contemporary figures of