Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University Press of America
Published:19th Nov '01
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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.
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
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
Carter's book provides a fascinating read and thought-provoking insights. -- Dr. Pauline M. Kaurin, Pacific Lutheran University * Bridges *
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 *
ISBN: 9780761821007
Dimensions: 216mm x 142mm x 17mm
Weight: 295g
214 pages