Marion and Derrida on The Gift and Desire Debating the Generosity of Things [Paperback]

This book examines the various encounters between Jean-LucMarion and Jacques Derrida on the gift, considers their many differences ondesire, and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some ofphenomenologys most pressing structural questions, especially regardingdeconstructive 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.

1. Introduction: Histories of the Gift and Desire.- Part 1. Marion, the Gift, and Desire.- 2. Marions The Adonn? Or The Given: between Passion and Passivity.- 3. The Manifolds of Desire and Love in Marions 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 l#(