Abstract

SANTANA, Wellington Jose. Jacques Derrida and the condition of (im) possibility of the gift. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2017, vol.31, n.61, pp.421-441. ISSN 1982-596x.  https://doi.org/10.14393/REVEDFIL.issn.0102-6801.v31n61a2017-p421a441.

The present article analyzes critically the concept of gift as well as its conditions of possibility or impossibility. Jacques Derrida pondered the question of the gift under philosophical point of view after analyzing the system of gift exchange made by French Sociologist Marcel Mauss. The gift, by nature, must be gratuitous, but falls into aporia because every time it is acknowledged as such, it returns to the sender. Therefore the conditions of possibility are, at the same time, the conditions of impossibility. The gift is also similar to the concept of time that it does exist but its unreachable and isolated and ends up being nothing.

Keywords : Aporia; Derrida; Gift; Time.

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