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Leopards in the Temple

Selected Essays 1990-2000

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Leopards in the Temple

Selected Essays 1990-2000

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What is the role of the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of otherness in a secularized, high-tech society such as our own? In a world governed by the extensions of man-television, the telephone, the automobile, and the Internet-what happens to cultural values once held to be spiritual? In Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000, Steven Carter explores the myriad ways in which technology and its "muses"-media entertainment and advertising, the so-called culture of electronics plus capitalism-are in the process of recycling metaphysical values in postmodern American life.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Foreword by Arthur J. Spring
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Prologue: The Poetry of Night
Chapter 5 The Horror and Splendor of "Radiant Appearing:" Notes from the Shadow of Chernobyl
Chapter 6 The Descent of John Henry's Hammer
Chapter 7 Romancing the Apocalypse, or: Why We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb
Chapter 8 Charles is an Angel of Goodness
Chapter 9 "The Beauty of Her Vault"
Chapter 10 Avatars of the Turtles
Chapter 11 Intermission: The Two Infinites
Chapter 12 Barbie and Jane vs. the Wooden Nutmegs of Connecticut
Chapter 13 Surviving the Fall
Chapter 14 Are We Having Fun Yet?
Chapter 15 "Paper or Plastic?" "You Decide"
Chapter 16 Mythopoesis and the Marketplace
Chapter 17 Expecting the Barbarians
Chapter 18 Leopards in the Temple
Chapter 19 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 20 Index

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Published Nov 19 2001
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 214
ISBN 9780761821007
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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