28 | A Very Special Holiday Episode: Learning How to Give with Jacques Derrida
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Atema O Started Obord, You're Just a Little Girl
Atema o started o might seem kind of spurious, unless you buy into metaphysical idea that, now, these words have certain resonances. Now, look, he makes hash out of present as present moment and present as a gift, like, we get it. We know that's what he's doing. But i thinktht there is something to him saying that if you really want to understand the structure of the gift, understand that you have lost it as soon you are talking about so what are its laws? HowDo we split it? How do we divide it? And so it seems to me he is constantly asking something like an ethicalaf vigilance ot of attend to go the sort
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