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Given Time II - Jacques Derrida

Given Time II

By: Jacques Derrida, Laura Odello (Editor), Peter Szendy (Editor), Rodrigo Therezo (Editor), Geoffrey Bennington (Translator)

Hardcover | 18 March 2026 | Edition Number 1

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The long-awaited conclusion to Derrida's seminar on the gift and time.

In 1991, Jacques Derrida published the first half of a seminar delivered from 1978 to 1979 on gifts and time, but the second installment (though expected) was not completed in his lifetime. Given Time II completes the seminar with eight sessions that showcase Derrida's most advanced work on the problematic of the gift in Heidegger, with deep dives into some of the most difficult texts in the Heideggerian corpus, including "The Origin of the Work of Art," "The Thing," and "On Time and Being."

Beyond Heidegger, Derrida engages Claude Levi-Strauss, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan, and others on the act of giving and receiving, the sacrificial gift, and more. Throughout, Derrida identifies a paradox of gift giving: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since gifts often involve a cycle of debt and repayment. Given Time II is a uniquely Derridean treatment of an important subject in the work of Heidegger and beyond.

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