![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. Derrida's purpose is not to reject those data, but to dispute the validity of the term “gift” as designating a gesture that presupposes or even mandates the requirement of reciprocity. Starting with those requirements, Derrida proposes a critical reading of Marcel Mauss's The Gift (1990), a writing where the obligation to give, receive, and reciprocate established by ethnographic inquiries is understood as the core of the gift relationship. To escape this logic, for the gift to be truly a gift, Derrida claims, the giver would have to be unaware that he is giving, and the receiver unaware of the giver's identity. The aporia of the gift according to Derrida can be summed up as follows: Giving is always understood as a relationship between a giver and a receiver, an exchange that generates a debt and in the final analysis remains within the confines of economic reciprocity in this, the gift becomes the opposite of what it claims to be. This chapter discusses Jacques Derrida's Given Time (1992), which presents an aporia of the gift that has made its mark and has occasioned many commentaries and a few refutations. ![]()
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