The Gift of Death is Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date. While continuing to explore questions introduced in Given Time such as the possibility, or impossibility, of giving and the economic and anthropological nature of gifts, Derrida turns to the notion of responsibility and the ultimate gifts of life and death. Derrida divides the book into four parts, which deal respectively with the development of the notion of responsibility in the Platonic and Christian traditions; the relation between sacrifice and mortality; the contemporary meaning of the story of Abraham and Isaac; and the relation between religious ideology and economic rationality, explicitly linking this book with Given Time. The texts under discussion include the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as writings from Patocka, Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard (whom he...
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