Leopards in the Temple - Softcover

Carter Henderson State Universit, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573093254 ISBN 13: 9781573093255

Publisher: International Scholars Publications, 2001

Leopards in the Temple explores the ways in which exposure to electronic environments influences cultural interpretations of self and otherness in contemporary American life. Philosophers of technology such as Jacques Ellul, Martin Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, Hans Jonas, and Hubert Dreyfus have taken various approaches to interpreting the consequences of technological revolutions. With the exception of Jonas and Heidegger, critiques of technology's influence at the ontological level are relatively rare. Addressing this issue, Steven Carter investigates the ways in which technology, media entertainment, and advertising are in the process of recycling metaphysical values in postmodern society. In this revised edition, he focuses specifically on marginality as a world wide literary phenomenon. Thought provoking and original, Leopards in the Temple represents a timely contribution to the study of technology, popular culture, and postmodern studies.

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About the Author:

Steven Carter is the author of five books of literary and cultural criticism, including Bearing Across: Studies in Literature and Science (University Press of America, 2002). In 1989 he was awarded the Schachterle Prize by the National Society for Literature and Science. In 2001 he became the only two-time winner of Italy's coveted Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize. A former Senior Fulbright Fellow at two Polish universities, Professor Carter teaches at California State University, Bakersfield.

Review:

Fiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. The identity of the post-nuclear man is created by the TV programs he chooses to watch and the brand of the washing powder he chooses to buy. Such is the process of internalizing theOther that Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining book. (Dorota Janowska, Catholic University of Lublin)

...a remarkable essay...on the study of popular culture...Carter goes beyond John Storey's taxonomy. (Arthur J. Spring PhD, St. John's University)

...a remarkable essay...on the study of popular culture...Carter goes beyond John Storey's taxonomy. (Arthur J. Spring PhD, St. John's University)

Fiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. The identity of the "post-nuclear man" is created by the TV programs he chooses to watch and the brand of the washing powder he chooses to buy. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining book. (Dorota Janowska, Catholic University of Lublin)

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