Miracle and Machine - (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) by Michael Naas (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Miracle and Machine </i>is an introduction to the work of Jacques Derrida by means of a detailed reading of his 1994-5 essay "Faith and Knowledge," Derrida's most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the unprecedented forms it is taking today through science and the media.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Miracle and Machine</i> 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 ineluctably<br>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, <br>technoscience, and worldwide telecommunications networks. <p/>But <i>Miracle and Machine</i> 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, <i>Miracle and Machine</i> 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 <i>Underworld</i>, 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>With Miracle and Machine, Naas provides us with an extremely rich and highly illuminating reading of Derrida's complex work that permits us to gauge the stakes of this absolutely unique text in Derrida's corpus.-- "--Research in Phenomenology"<br><br><p>This book is overflowing with insights and broad perspectives at the same<br>time that it offers an authoritative summation, overview, and progress<br>report on Jacques Derrida's considerable work on religion and its impact on the contemporary world.</p><b>-----Henry Sussman, <i>Yale University</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include <i>The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar </i>and <i>Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media</i> (both Fordham).
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