28 | A Very Special Holiday Episode: Learning How to Give with Jacques Derrida
What's Left of Philosophy
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A True Gift, if There Is Any Such Thing, All at Once Affirms Our Bonds and Obligations
For there to be an actual gift in the instant, there'd also have to be a forgetting that no gift was given. A more healthy sociality would be one in which we can't get out of economy. He's not talking about capitalism, though he's winking at it. And soto, the moment of the gift would actually even change the donor, the one who is giving.
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