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The Indiscrete Image

Infinitude and Creation of the Human

by Thomas A. Carlson

  • Hardback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

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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 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.
The Indiscrete Image and Indiscretion
IndiscretionThe Indiscrete Image

  • Author

    Thomas A. Carlson

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    The University of Chicago Press

  • Published

    October 2008

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780226093154

  • ISBN-10

    0226093158

  • Eden Code

    1225601

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