04316nam 2200733Ia 450 991045411580332120200520144314.01-282-06968-397866120696800-226-09317-410.7208/9780226093178(CKB)1000000000748459(EBL)432202(OCoLC)435816683(SSID)ssj0000178413(PQKBManifestationID)11197340(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178413(PQKBWorkID)10229313(PQKB)10723643(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122962(MiAaPQ)EBC432202(DE-B1597)524850(OCoLC)1058121994(DE-B1597)9780226093178(Au-PeEL)EBL432202(CaPaEBR)ebr10288711(CaONFJC)MIL206968(EXLCZ)99100000000074845920080107d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe indiscrete image[electronic resource] infinitude & creation of the human /Thomas A. CarlsonChicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (263 p.)Religion and postmodernismDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-09315-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and indexes.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Opening -- 1. Of God or a Salamander: The Creative Human as Indiscrete Image -- 2. "I am": Technological Modernity, Theological Tradition, and the Human in Question -- 3. The Living Image: Infinitude, Unknowing, and Creative Capacity in Mystical Anthropology -- 4. Of the Indefinite Human: Religion and the Nature of Technological Culture -- 5. Here Comes Everybody: Technopoetics and Mystical Tradition in Joyce -- 6. To Inherit: The Birth of Possible Worlds -- Closing -- Bibliography -- IndexHumanity's creative capacity has never been more unsettling than it is at our current moment, when it has ushered us into new technological worlds that challenge the very definition of "the human." Those anxious to safeguard the human against techno-scientific threats often appeal to religious traditions to protect the place and dignity of the human. But how well do we understand both theological tradition and today's technological culture? In The Indiscrete Image, Thomas A. Carlson challenges our common ideas about both, 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. Framed in response to Martin Heidegger's influential account of the relation between technological modernity and theological tradition, The Indiscrete Image builds an understanding of creativity as conditioned by insurmountable unknowing and incalculable possibility through alternative readings of Christian theological tradition and technological culture-and the surprising resonance between these two. Carlson concludes that the always ongoing work of world creation, tied essentially to human self-creation, implies neither an idol's closure nor an icon's transcendence, but the "indiscrete image" whose love makes possible-by keeping open-both the human and its world. Religion and postmodernism.Theological anthropologyChristianityPhilosophical anthropologyNegative theologyPostmodernismReligious aspectsChristianityTechnologyReligious aspectsChristianityElectronic books.Theological anthropologyChristianity.Philosophical anthropology.Negative theology.PostmodernismReligious aspectsChristianity.TechnologyReligious aspectsChristianity.218Carlson Thomas A964675MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454115803321The indiscrete image2204299UNINA03068nam 2200529 450 991079758030332120230126214547.01-4985-1590-8(CKB)3710000000466170(EBL)4086503(SSID)ssj0001579212(PQKBManifestationID)16254887(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001579212(PQKBWorkID)14848835(PQKB)10602505(MiAaPQ)EBC4086503(Au-PeEL)EBL4086503(CaPaEBR)ebr11125317(OCoLC)919002416(EXLCZ)99371000000046617020150515h20152015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe political philosophy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo /Olayiwola AbegunrinLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,[2015]©20151 online resource (269 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-1589-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.The Awo i knew --Nigeria history before Obafemi Awolowo politics began --Chief Obafemi Awolowo early life --Chief Obafemi Awolowo and decolonization of Nigeria --Chief Awolowo and the formation of Action Group of Nigeria 1950-1951 --Chief Awolowo as the premier of Western Region 1951-1959 --Awo: the treasonable felony charge, the trial, the sentence, the ensuing crisis and his release from jail, 1962-1966 --Chief Obafemi Awolowo as Minister of Finance and Vice-chairman of the Executive Council in the military administration of General Gowon 1967-1971 --Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his political comeback in the Second Republic --Awolowo's leadership style and political legacies: an assessment --Appendix 1: Nigerian youth movement charter --Appendix 2: the aims of Egbe Omo Oduduwa --Appendix 3: Chief Awolowo's affirmation --Appendix 4: Awo's prophesy about crisis and befalling darkness on Nigeria --Appendix 5: petition to the federal military government --Appendix 6: Chief Obafemi Awolowo's letter of resignation to General Gowon --Appendix 7: open letter of resignation to Ojukwu from Robert S. Goldstein- --Appendix 8: books by Chief Obafemi Awolowo.This book examines the political leadership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, one of the nationalists' leaders who fought for Nigeria's independence. His model of leadership and perseverance is one to be emulated and studied as he implemented an economic development program that brought far reaching changes to not only Nigeria, but all of Africa.SocialismNigeriaNigeriaPolitics and government1960-Socialism966.905Abegunrin Olayiwola242669MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797580303321The political philosophy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo3860918UNINA