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

1. Introduction: Histories of the Gift and Desire
Jason W. Alvis

Part I. Marion, the Gift, and Desire

2. Marion’s The Adonné or “The Given:” Between Passion and Passivity
Jason W. Alvis

3. The Manifolds of Desire and Love in Marion’s The Erotic Phenomenon

Jason W. Alvis

4. Marion on Love and Givenness: Desiring to Give What One Lacks
Jason W. Alvis

Part II. Derrida, Desire, and the Gift

5. Indifference: Derrida Beyond Husserl, Intentionality, and Desire
Jason W. Alvis

6. Desire in Derrida’s Given Time: There is (Es gibt) No Gift Outside the Text
Jason W. Alvis

7. The Gift in Derrida’s Deconstruction: Affirming the Gift Through Denegation
Jason W. Alvis

Part III. Before Marion’s Phenomenology, After Derrida’s Deconstruction

8. Four Tensions Between Marion and Derrida: Very Close and Extremely Distant
Jason W. Alvis

9. Conclusion: The Generosity of Things: Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction
Jason W. Alvis

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Phenomenology, History of Philosophy