Barth’s gift-theology resembles Marion’s more than Hegel’s.
Evidence
Barth as he appears here is fundamentally much closer to Marion than to Hegel. He also would understand the gift as a ‘present’ which does not let itself be presented, as the promise of an event, as, in a word, a future. It emerges from the Barthian analysis that divine freedom must be conceived as an offering. Yet the possibility of freely giving to another would be completely covered over by the logic of dialectical assimilation and appropriation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 741
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Bridges toward contemporary French phenomenology of the gift (Marion) — this is the later ‘givenness’ tradition Malabou elsewhere gestures toward.
- SEED: The paradox ‘a present which does not let itself be presented’ is an elegant collision of gift and phenomenology worth foregrounding.