This ambitious work engages several major philosophical genres. It responds to current discussions of the "gift," which lie on the frontier of literature, anthropology, and economics, notably in the work of Jacques Derrida, and offers a detailed critique of the basis on which those discussions have proceeded. Preface to the American Translation ix Preliminary Answers 1(6) BOOK I GIVENNESS The Last Principle 7(12) The Essence of the Phenomenon 19(8) Objectness and Beingness 27(12) The Reduction to the Given 39(14) Privilege of Givenness 53(8) To Give Itself, to Show Itself 61(10) BOOK II THE GIFT Two Objections 71(8) The Reduction of the Gift to Givenness 79(6) The Bracketing of the Givee 85(9) The Bracketing of the Giver 94(8) The Bracketing of the Gift 102(11) Intrinsic Givenness 113(6) BOOK III THE GIVEN I: DETERMINATIONS Anamorphosis 119(12) Unpredictable Landing 131(8) The Fait Accompli 139(12) The Incident 151(8) The Event 159(14) The Being Given 173(6) BOOK IV THE GIVEN II: DEGREES The Horizon and the I 179(10) Intuition as Shortage 189(10) Sketch of the Saturated Phenomenon: The Horizon 199(13) Sketch of the Saturated Phenomenon: I 212(9) Topics of the Phenomenon 221(13) To Give Itself, to Reveal Itself 234(14) BOOK V THE GIFTED The Aporias of the ``Subject'' 248(14) To Receive One's Self from What Gives Itself 262(9) Two Calls in Metaphysics 271(11) The Call and the Responsal 282(14) The Nameless Voice 296(12) Abandon 308(12) Opening onto a Question 320(7) Notes 327(50) English Editions Cited 377(6) Index Nominum 383