Description: Further DetailsTitle: Miracle and MachineCondition: NewSubtitle: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the MediaISBN-10: 0823239985EAN: 9780823239986ISBN: 9780823239986Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/02/2012Description: Miracle and Machine is a sort of “reader’s guide” to Jacques Derrida’s 1994–95 essay “faith and knowledge,” his most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the unprecedented forms it is taking today through science and the media. It provides essential background for understanding Derrida’s essay, commentary on its unique style and its central figures (e.g., Kant, Hegel, Bergson, and Heidegger), and assessment of its principal philosophical claims about the fundamental duplicity of religion and the ineluctablyautoimmune relationship among religion, science, and the media. Along the way it offers in-depth analysis of Derrida’s treatment of everything from the nature of religious revelation, faith, prayer, sacrifice, testimony, messianicity, fundamentalism, and secularism to the way religion is today being transformed by globalization,technoscience, and worldwide telecommunications networks.But Miracle and Machine is much more than a commentary on a single Derrida text. Through references to scores of other works by Derrida, both early and late, it also provides a unique introduction to Derrida’s work in general. It demonstrates that one of the very best ways to understand the terms, themes, claims, strategies, and motivations of Derridean deconstruction from the early 1960s through 2004 is to read critically and patiently, in its spirit and in its letter, an exemplary text such as “Faith and Knowledge.” Finally, Miracle and Machine attempts to put Derrida’s ideas about religion to the test by reading alongside “Faith and Knowledge” an already classic work of American fiction that is more or less contemporaneous with it, Don DeLillo’s 1997 Underworld, a novel that explores the same relationship between faith and knowledge, religion and science, religious revelation and the World Wide Web, messianicity, and weapons of mass destruction—in a word, in two words, miracles and machines.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Michael NaasGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Miracle and Machine
Title: Miracle and Machine
Subtitle: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the
ISBN-10: 0823239985
EAN: 9780823239986
ISBN: 9780823239986
Release Date: 04/02/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Book Title: Miracle and Machine : Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media
Number of Pages: 428 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Topic: Movements / Deconstruction, Media Studies, Philosophy
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 1 in
Genre: Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Author: Michael Naas
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
