The indiscrete image
Subtitle: infinitude and creation of the human
By: Thomas A. Carlson.
Series: Religion and postmodernism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780226093154
Subjects: Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976; Theological anthropology -- Christianity; Philosophical anthropology; Negative theology; Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Technology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Description: "In The Indiscrete Image, Thomas A. Carlson challenges our common ideas about theological tradition and today's technological culture, arguing instead that it may be humanity's final lack of definition that first enables, and calls for, human creativity and its correlates - including technology, tradition, and their inextricable interplay within religious existence." "This book builds an understanding of creativity as conditioned by insurmountable unknowing and incalculable possibility. It does so through alternative readings of Christian theological tradition and technological culture - and the surprising resonance between the two."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of God or a salamander : the creative human as indiscrete image; title: I am : technological modernity, theological tradition, and the human in question; title: The living image : infinitude, unknowing, and creative capacity in mystical anthropology; title: Of the indefinite human : religion and the nature of technological culture; title: Here comes everybody : technopoetics and mystical tradition in Joyce; title: To inherit : the birth of possible worlds.