This book examines the various encounters between Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida on the gift, considers their many differences on desire, and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some of phenomenology s most pressing structural questions, especially regarding deconstructive approaches within the field. The book claims that the topic of desire is a central lynchpin to understanding the two thinkers conflict over the gift, for the gift is reducible to the desire to give, which initiates a turn to the topic of generosity. To what degree might loving also imply giving? How far...