“What a stunning book! As scholarly as it is urgent, sweeping as it is detailed, gorgeously written as it is analytically precise, Free Gifts asks and answers a question fundamental to a future for earthly life: Why can't capitalism value nonhuman nature, and how does this failure imbricate exploitative productive work, subordinated reproductive work, and ecological destruction?”—Wendy Brown

“Free Gifts is a vital, transformative work of political theory. Battistoni turns the question of what capitalism does to the natural world inside out by focusing our attention on what capitalism cannot do: put an economic value on nonhuman nature or human labor. Not commodification, but its shadow—what cannot be commodified—is the secret to our epoch of repetitive crisis and threatening catastrophe. This is gripping, urgent scholarship that eschews both polemics and platitudes.”—William Clare Roberts

“Anthropogenic climate change forces political theory out of its grooves. Battistoni understands this as an opportunity for helping us to think and live otherwise in the world. Free Gifts is a truly brilliant work of political philosophy, written in the spirit of Marx while upending the most basic assumptions of orthodox and heterodox economics.”—Melinda Cooper

“This is a terrific book, demonstrating the highest standards of scholarship and intellectual ingenuity, on a topic of pressing importance to political societies the world over. Cogently argued, meticulously sourced, and beautifully written.”—Sharon Krause