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- Title
The (Anarchic) Gift of Gelassenheit: On an Undeveloped Motif in Derrida's Donner le temps II.
- Authors
Moore, Ian Alexander
- Abstract
In his recently published Donner le temps II, Derrida raises, but does not develop, the possibility that Heidegger's notion of Gelassenheit ('releasement', 'letting-be') might escape the economic confines of exchange, debt, and repayment and therefore qualify as a pure gift. In this paper, I explore this possibility, explaining that Gelassenheit would have to be understood, first, not primarily as a human comportment but at the level of being itself, second, beyond appropriation, and third, as 'without why'. If Heidegger's focus on appropriation in 'Time and Being' remains entangled in the economy of exchange (as Derrida insinuates in the final session of Donner le temps II), Heidegger's anarchic treatment of 'letting' (laisser, Lassen) in the final session of his 1969 seminar in Le Thor opens instead onto a 'pure giving' (pur donner, reines Geben).
- Subjects
REPAYMENTS; GIFT giving; POSSIBILITY; DEBT; SEMINARS
- Publication
Derrida Today, 2024, Vol 17, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
1754-8500
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/drt.2024.0337