ABSTRACT
The Gift of Death re-proposes and relaunches themes and itineraries of the last 15–20 years of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida's production. The constellations of meaning provided by the notions of 'testimony', 'friendship', 'responsibility', 'secret', and 'forgiveness' come here to a decisive grasp, which is a radical 'lunge' on the method of generation of the I itself. In 'Secrets of European Responsibility', the first chapter of The Gift of Death, Derrida's comment already highlights the close relationship between secret and responsibility. Here the constitutive knot of the I, in which it is conceived, is tackled from the inside of its generation. Death is the third vertex of a three-dimensional graph within which the concept of I would become accessible, knowable and practicable. The three-dimensionality that retakes measures by running through and evaluating its genesis may be thought in the other important classical, Augustinian, three-dimensionality.
