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

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  1. Jason W. Alvis

    1. Institute for Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  • Is the first extensive treatment of the discontinuities and similarities between Marion and Derrida s phenomenological approaches
  • Shows the substantial importance and relevance of gift and desire
  • Offers an in-depth analysis and constructive commentary
  • Places the debate on the gift in the context of Husserl s phenomenology

Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 85)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Histories of the Gift and Desire

    • Jason W. Alvis
    Pages 1-38

  5. Before Marion’s Phenomenology, After Derrida’s Deconstruction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Four Tensions Between Marion and Derrida: Very Close and Extremely Distant

      • Jason W. Alvis
      Pages 203-233

    3. Conclusion: The Generosity of Things: Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction

      • Jason W. Alvis
      Pages 235-252

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 253-269
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About this book

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” approaches within the field.  The book claims that the topic of desire is a central lynchpin to understanding the two thinkers’ conflict over the gift, for the gift is reducible to the “desire to give,” which initiates a turn to the topic of “generosity.”  To what degree might loving also imply giving? How far might it be suggested that love is reducible to desire and intentionality? It is demonstrated how Derrida (the generative “father” of deconstruction) rejects the possibility of any potential relation between the gift and desire on the account that desire is bound to calculative repetition, economical appropriation, and subject-centered interests that hinder deconstruction.  Whereas Marion (a representative of the phenomenological tradition) demands a unique union between the gift and desire, which are both represented in his “reduction to givenness” and “erotic reduction.”

The book is the first extensive attempt to contextualize the stark differences between Marion and Derrida within the phenomenological legacy (Husserl, Heidegger, Kant), supplies readers with in-depth accounts of the topics of the gift, love, and desire, and demonstrates another means through which the appearing of phenomena might be understood, namely, according to the generosity of things.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Jason W. Alvis

About the author

Jason W. Alvis is the FWF Research Fellow at The University of Vienna in the Institute for Philosophy and External Lecturer in the Philosophy and Theological Faculties. In the academic year of 2015/16 he is a Visiting Research Scholar at Stanford University in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments.

Bibliographic Information

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

  • Authors: Jason W. Alvis

  • Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27942-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27940-4Published: 29 January 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80243-5Published: 30 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27942-8Published: 13 January 2016

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 269

  • Topics: Phenomenology, History of Philosophy

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