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(1995) From phenomenology to thought, errancy, and desire, Dordrecht, Springer.
If, as Heidegger says, thinking is thanking, then one can offer a work of thought as a bit of gratitude. Derrida, on the other hand, repeats the warning of the circle of the gift according to which, in all gift-giving, something is always returned to the giver. The giver always gets a pay back, a return on the investment, if only (or especially) in the most oblique, the most indirect form, of gratitude. Therefore, the purest gift-gifting demands ingratitude, which does not pay the giver back and therefore pay off and nullify his generosity.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1624-6_18
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Caputo, J.D. (1995)., Dark hearts: Heidegger, Richardson, and evil, in B. Babich (ed.), From phenomenology to thought, errancy, and desire, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 267-275.
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