28 | A Very Special Holiday Episode: Learning How to Give with Jacques Derrida
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Gift Is a Transcendental Illusion
He thinks we think we know giving so well, so intimately, that we don't act see the manner in which that when the gift appears, it disappears. And he says at the end, and i'm curioust what you guys think about this, but hehe uses the very cantian language at the end,. He says that the gift is a transcendental illusion. So, like, the practical upshot as that, lik, don't even try to give gifts. You don't just get back to, get back to exchange, just gting xchange. Adnd, whatever.
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