LEADER 04641nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910777759503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-06968-3 010 $a9786612069680 010 $a0-226-09317-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226093178 035 $a(CKB)1000000000748459 035 $a(EBL)432202 035 $a(OCoLC)435816683 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000178413 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197340 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178413 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10229313 035 $a(PQKB)10723643 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432202 035 $a(DE-B1597)524850 035 $a(OCoLC)1058121994 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226093178 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288711 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL206968 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000748459 100 $a20080107d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe indiscrete image$b[electronic resource] $einfinitude & creation of the human /$fThomas A. Carlson 210 $aChicago, Ill. $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 225 1 $aReligion and postmodernism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-09315-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tOpening -- $t1. Of God or a Salamander: The Creative Human as Indiscrete Image -- $t2. "I am": Technological Modernity, Theological Tradition, and the Human in Question -- $t3. The Living Image: Infinitude, Unknowing, and Creative Capacity in Mystical Anthropology -- $t4. Of the Indefinite Human: Religion and the Nature of Technological Culture -- $t5. Here Comes Everybody: Technopoetics and Mystical Tradition in Joyce -- $t6. To Inherit: The Birth of Possible Worlds -- $tClosing -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHumanity's creative capacity has never been more unsettling than it is at our current moment, when it has ushered us into new technological worlds that challenge the very definition of "the human." Those anxious to safeguard the human against techno-scientific threats often appeal to religious traditions to protect the place and dignity of the human. But how well do we understand both theological tradition and today's technological culture? In The Indiscrete Image, Thomas A. Carlson challenges our common ideas about both, arguing instead that it may be humanity's final lack of definition that first enables, and calls for, human creativity and its correlates-including technology, tradition, and their inextricable interplay within religious existence. Framed in response to Martin Heidegger's influential account of the relation between technological modernity and theological tradition, The Indiscrete Image builds an understanding of creativity as conditioned by insurmountable unknowing and incalculable possibility through alternative readings of Christian theological tradition and technological culture-and the surprising resonance between these two. Carlson concludes that the always ongoing work of world creation, tied essentially to human self-creation, implies neither an idol's closure nor an icon's transcendence, but the "indiscrete image" whose love makes possible-by keeping open-both the human and its world. 410 0$aReligion and postmodernism. 606 $aTheological anthropology$xChristianity 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 606 $aNegative theology 606 $aPostmodernism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aTechnology$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 610 $acreativity, humanity, technology, religion, tradition, heidegger, modernity, theology, creation, transcendance, love, theological anthropology, postmodernism, christianity, technopoetics, mysticism, spirituality, faith, belief, inspiration, hope, futures, possible worlds, nonfiction, history, infinite, human spirit, possibility, potential. 615 0$aTheological anthropology$xChristianity. 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 615 0$aNegative theology. 615 0$aPostmodernism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aTechnology$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a218 700 $aCarlson$b Thomas A$01466969 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777759503321 996 $aThe indiscrete image$93855206 997 $aUNINA