- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida
- Miracle and Machine
- Introduction
- Prologue
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Part I The Island and the Starry Skies Above -
1 Context Event Signature -
2 Duplicity, Definition, Deracination -
3 Three Theses on the Two Sources and Their One Common Element -
Part II The Religion(s) of the World -
Interlude I -
4 La Religion Soufflée -
5 The Telegenic Voice -
6 “Jewgreek is Greekjew” -
Part III Underworlds and Afterlives - Interlude II
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7 Mary and the Marionettes -
8 Pomegranate Seeds and Scattered Ashes -
9 The Passion of Literature - Epilogue
- Observations
- Observation 1
- Observation 2
- Observation 3
- Observation 4
- Timeline of Selected Derrida Publications, Conferences, and Interviews: 1993–95
- Index to Sections of “Faith and Knowledge”
- Name and Subject Index
Three Theses on the Two Sources and Their One Common Element
Three Theses on the Two Sources and Their One Common Element
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- (p.65) 3 Three Theses on the Two Sources and Their One Common Element
- Source:
- Miracle and Machine
- Author(s):
Michael Naas
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter attempts to develop the three principal theses that run throughout “Faith and Knowledge.” While Derrida does not himself identify these three theses as such, this chapter shows the extent to which they structure the entirety of Derrida’s essay. That there are two sources of religion, that in order to indemnify one of these two sources religion must enlist the forces of technoscience, and that religion and science share a source in a kind of originary faith that makes all community possible—these theses are at the center of “Faith and Knowledge.” It is also in this chapter that the autoimmune relationship between religion and science, and particularly religion and the media, is developed.
Keywords: Jacques Derrida, Religion, Science, Technology, Media, Autoimmunity, Source
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida
- Miracle and Machine
- Introduction
- Prologue
-
Part I The Island and the Starry Skies Above -
1 Context Event Signature -
2 Duplicity, Definition, Deracination -
3 Three Theses on the Two Sources and Their One Common Element -
Part II The Religion(s) of the World -
Interlude I -
4 La Religion Soufflée -
5 The Telegenic Voice -
6 “Jewgreek is Greekjew” -
Part III Underworlds and Afterlives - Interlude II
-
7 Mary and the Marionettes -
8 Pomegranate Seeds and Scattered Ashes -
9 The Passion of Literature - Epilogue
- Observations
- Observation 1
- Observation 2
- Observation 3
- Observation 4
- Timeline of Selected Derrida Publications, Conferences, and Interviews: 1993–95
- Index to Sections of “Faith and Knowledge”
- Name and Subject Index