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Apost es ofthe Impossible On God and the Gift in Derrida and Marion John D. Caputo In a series of groundbreaking texts published over the last twenty years, Jean-Luc Marion proposes to stretch phenomenology to the limits of its highest possibility, to the limits of an impossibility, to the possibility of something "impossible," something declared off limits by the "conditions of possibility" imposed by modernity and onto-theology.l He proposes a radical phenomenology ofa saturating givenness, a phenomenological description ofan event, or the possibility of an event, of bedazzling brilliance, given without being, visited upon us beyond comprehension, leaving us stunned and lost for words. "Deconstruction," if this is a word Marion can use, plays the preparatory role of undoing the conceptual constraints and preconditions imposed by metaphysical concepts, dismantling the onto-theological impediments which dull the glow of this event and stop up its overflowing givenness. Jacques Derrida, no less in love with the impossible than Marion, no less its zealous apostle, is wary of such saturating givenness. For Derrida, the impossible is something that is never given, that is always deferred. Deconstruction is a call for the coming ofsomething unforeseeable and unprogram185 On God and the Gift in Derrida and Marion John D. Caputo In

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