The rise of the human sciences was one of the conditions for a distinctly philosophical thinking of a politics of the gift – one of the conditions for thinking politics both in its relation to anthropology and in its relation to an event in excess of the human. But it was not the only one; and the nascent field of anthropology was not the only academic discipline to engage with the problematic. The brief mentions of Husserl and Jean-Luc Marion in the introductory chapter noted how phenomenology too was also and still is immersed in a language of the gift, of what es gibt in consciousness, distinct from the anthropological discourse of giving (Husserl 1960: 24/64). Writing from within this phenomenological tradition of ‘givenness’, Martin Heidegger was among the first to seek to wrest philosophy back from what he perceived as its restrictive framing by ‘Anthropology’. He dismisses anthropology's ‘lacking ontological foundations [fehlende ontologische Fundament]’ as an obstacle to the fundamental ontology through which he could conceptualise giving as the essential characteristic of the event (BT, 75/67 [§10, 49]).