Being given : toward a phenomenology of givenness / Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946-

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Standardized Title:

Etant donné. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xi, 385 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

This ambitious work engages several major philosophical genres. It responds to current discussions of the " gift, " which lie on the frontier of literature, anthropology, and economics, notably in the work of Jacques Derrida, and offers a detailed critique of the basis on which those discussions have proceeded.

Contents:

The last principle

The essence of the phenomenon

Objectness and beingness

The reduction to the given

Privilege of givenness

To give itself, to show itself

Two objections

The reduction of the gift to givenness

The bracketing of the givee

The bracketing of the giver

The bracketing of the gift

Intrinsic givenness

Anamorphosis

Unpredictable landing

The fait accompli

The incident

The event

The being given

The horizon and I

Intuition as shortage

Sketch of the saturated phenomenon: the horizon

Sketch of the saturated phenomenon: I

Topics of the phenomenon

To give itself, to reveal itself

The aporias of the "subject"

To receive one's self from what gives itself

Two calls in metaphysics

The call and the responsal

The nameless voice

Abandon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-381) and index.

ISBN:

0804734100

0804734119

OCLC:

50080453