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Everything is a phenomenon, everything is a donation, and everything is given. This presupposition of phenomenology, which makes the donation (Gegebenheit) the starting point for phenomenality, is not altogether self-evident. It is not sufficient to merely look at the reverse of the given (phenomenology of the night), but it is a matter of questioning the impossibility of even giving (the night of phenomenology). Questioning the strategies of the contemporary reappropriations of Kant—radicalization (Heidegger), disproportion (Ricœur), and inversion (Marion)—, this text works under a fourth possibility, rarely questioned and yet still envisaged by Kant: the “Extra-Phenomenal,” or in other words, the “Chaos,” the “pell-mell,” the “Cinnabar,” or the “melee of sensations.”