Miracle and Machine Jacques Derrida and the Two by Michael Naas PAPERBACK

Miracle and MachineJacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media\nAuthor(s): Michael Naas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823239986, 978-0823239986\nSynopsis\nMiracle and Machine is a sort of \""reader's guide\"" to Jacques Derrida's [tel] 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 ([url] Kant, Hegel, Bergson, and Heidegger), and assessment of its principal philosophical claims about the fundamental duplicity of religion and the ineluctably\n 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, fa.