To assemble a full definition of debt, one would need to address philosophies of morality and justice and anthropologies of sacrifice and potlatch
Note that the German word for “debt” and “guilt” is the same: die Schuld. Not only Nietzsche but also Benjamin probed this polysemy on several occasions.
Walter Benjamin
the toys are recognizably like commodities, expropriated from the one who makes them and sent out to travel a long (but never infinite) chain of transactions before they can be allowed to resume their unremarkable existence as objects of use or enjoyment
on a story that Karl Marx would tell his daughter Eleanor about a toy shop
Marx actually admired capitalism in some ways, which means that he might have been right about a few things; meanwhile, his trenchant criticisms of it will be treated as the quaintly perceptive observations of an awkward crank
about mainstream publications occasionally "rediscovering" Karl Marx
de Certeau’s analysis of the city presents itself as both an extension of Foucault’s critique of totalizing enclosure and as its immanent critique
