The Indiscrete Image : Infinitude and Creation of the Human /

Humanity'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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carlson, Thomas A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Colección:Religion and Postmodernism
Temas:
RELIGION / General.
creativity, 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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Index

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