Miracle and MacHine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science and the Media

Naas, Michael

ISBN 10: 0823239985 / ISBN 13: 9780823239986

Editore: Fordham University Pr., 2012

Book is in excellent condition, as new in every respect. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. A reading of Derrida's late essay "Faith and Knowledge" in relation to Bergson's "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion," examining how Derrida uses the concepts of the miraculous and the mechanical to analyze the entanglement of religion, science, and global media. Keywords: Two Sources Religion, Faith and Knowledge, Bergson Derrida, Tele-technology, Immune System, Messianicity, Globalization Religion, Archive Fever, Spectral Media, Indemnification, Khora, Autoimmunity. Codice articolo 160560

Riassunto:

Miracle and Machine is a sort of "reader's guide" to Jacques Derrida's 1994 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 ineluctably autoimmune 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.

Informazioni sugli autori: Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. His most recent books include Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction and Derrida from Now On (Fordham).

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (both Fordham).

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Titolo: Miracle and MacHine: Jacques Derrida and the...
Casa editrice: Fordham University Pr.
Data di pubblicazione: 2012
Legatura: Trade Paperback
Condizione: Fine