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Description
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 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
Product details
Published | Nov 19 2001 |
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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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Reviews
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Fiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in this most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining book.
Dorota Janowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University
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To their credit, Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done, all in the diffidence that faltered. . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by.
Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield College
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Carter's book provides a fascinating read and thought-provoking insights.
Dr. Pauline M. Kaurin, Pacific Lutheran University, Bridges
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Steven Carter has, I believe, made an important contribution to the study of metaphysics in our time. Such a voice ought to be heard.
Arthur J. Spring, St. John's University, From The Foreword