Michael Naas

Miracle and Machine

Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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,¿ Derridäs most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the unprecedented forms it is taking today through science and the media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780823239979
• ISBN-10: 0823239977
• Artikelnr.: 33627022

Autorenporträt

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage (2022), Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo¿s America (2022), Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband (2020), Plato and the Invention of Life (2018), The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derridäs Final Seminar (2015), Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (2012), Derrida From Now On (2008), Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (2003), and Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy (1994). He is co-translator of a number of books by Jacques Derrida, including Life Death (2020), and is a member of the Derrida Seminars Editorial Team.