Miracle and Machine by Michael Naas

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Miracle and Machine 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.

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Miracle and Machine by Michael Naas

Miracle and Machine is an introduction to the work of Jacques Derrida by means of a detailed reading of his 1994-5 essay Faith and Knowledge, Derridas most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the unprecedented forms it is taking today through science and the media.
"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 "This book is overflowing with insights and broad perspectives at the same time that it offers an authoritative summation, overview, and progress report on Jacques Derrida's considerable work on religion and its impact on the contemporary world." -- -Henry Sussman Yale University
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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ISBN 13 9780823239986
ISBN 10 0823239985
Title Miracle and Machine
Author Michael Naas
Series Perspectives In Continental Philosophy
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Fordham University Press
Year published 2012-04-02
Number of pages 432
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