Marion and Derrida on The Gift and Desire: Debating the Generosity of Things

Marion and Derrida on The Gift and Desire: Debating the Generosity of Things by Jason Alvis.

This book examines the various encounters between Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida on “the gift,” considers their many differences on “desire,” and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some of phenomenology’s most pressing structural questions, especially regarding “deconstructive” appr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alvis, Jason (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 85
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Phenomenology .
Philosophy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Histories of the Gift and Desire
  • Part 1. Marion, the Gift, and Desire
  • 2. Marion’s The Adonné Or “The Given:” between Passion and Passivity
  • 3. The Manifolds of Desire and Love in Marion’s The Erotic Phenomenon
  • 4. Marion on Love and Givenness: Desiring to Give What One Lacks
  • Part 2. Derrida, Desire, and the Gift
  • 5. Indifference: Derrida beyond Husserl, Intentionality, and Desire
  • 6. Desire in Derrida’s Given Time: There is (Es gibt) No Gift Outside the Text
  • 7. The Gift in Derrida’s Deconstruction: Affirming the Gift through Denegation
  • Part 3. Before Marion’s Phenomenology, After Derrida’s Deconstruction
  • 8. Four Tensions between Marion and Derrida: Close yet Extremely Distant
  • 9. Conclusion: The Generosity of Things: Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction.

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