Marion and Derrida on the Gift and Desire: Debating the Generosity of Things |
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| Author:
| Alvis, Jason |
| Series title: | Contributions to Phenomenology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-319-27940-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing AG
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| Imprint: | Springer |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $139.99USD $109.99 |
Book Description:
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This book examines the various encounters between Jean-LucMarion and Jacques Derrida on "the gift," considers their many differences on"desire," and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some ofphenomenology's most pressing structural questions, especially regarding"deconstructive" approaches within the field. The book claims that the topic ofdesire is a central lynchpin to understanding the two thinkers' conflict overthe gift, for the gift is reducible to the "desire to...
More DescriptionThis book examines the various encounters between Jean-LucMarion and Jacques Derrida on "the gift," considers their many differences on"desire," and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some ofphenomenology's most pressing structural questions, especially regarding"deconstructive" approaches within the field. The book claims that the topic ofdesire is a central lynchpin to understanding the two thinkers' conflict overthe gift, for the gift is reducible to the "desire to give," which initiates aturn to the topic of "generosity." To what degree might loving also implygiving? How far might it be suggested that love is reducible to desire andintentionality? It is demonstrated how Derrida (the generative "father" ofdeconstruction) rejects the possibility of any potential relation between thegift and desire on the account that desire is bound to calculative repetition,economical appropriation, and subject-centered interests that hinderdeconstruction. Whereas Marion (a representative of the phenomenologicaltradition) demands a unique union between the gift and desire, which are bothrepresented in his "reduction to givenness" and "erotic reduction."
The book is the first extensive attempt to contextualize thestark differences between Marion and Derrida within the phenomenological legacy(Husserl, Heidegger, Kant), supplies readers with in-depth accounts of thetopics of the gift, love, and desire, and demonstrates another means throughwhich the appearing of phenomena might be understood, namely, according to thegenerosity of things.