Miracle and machine : Jacques Derrida and the two sources of religion, science, and the media / Michael Naas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naas, Michael

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques--Religion.

Derrida, Jacques.

Derrida, Jacques. Foi et savoir.

Philosophy and religion.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xxi, 407 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Miracle and Machine is a sort of "reader's guide" to Jacques Derridas 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 Derridas 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 Derridas 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, tcchnoscience, and worldwide telecommunications networks. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Island and the Starry Skies Above

1 Context Event Signature 21

2 Duplicity, Definition, Deracination 39

3 Three Theses on the Two Sources and Their One Common Element 65

Part II The Religion(s) of the World

Interlude I Waste, Weapons, and Religion (Underworld II) 103

4 La religion soufflee-. The Genesis of "Faith and Knowledge" 107

5 The Telegenic Voice: The Religion of the Media 125

6 "Jewgreek is greekjew": Messianicity-Kbora-Democracy 152

Part III Underworlds and Afterlives

Interlude II Cyberspace and the Unconscious (Underworld III) 199

7 Mary and the Marionettes: Life, Sacrifice, and the Sexual Thing 202

8 Pomegranate Seeds and Scattered Ashes: From n + 1 to the One + n 227

9 The Passion of Literature: Genet in Laguna, Gide in Algiers 243

Epilogue: Miracle and Mass Delusion (Underworld IV) 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-391) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780823239979

0823239977

9780823239986

0823239985

OCLC:

721887557