Leopards in the Temple: Studies in American Popular Culture, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Carter, Steven

9781573093255: Leopards in the Temple: Studies in American Popular Culture, 2nd Edition

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ISBN 10: 1573093254 ISBN 13: 9781573093255

Publisher: International Scholars Publications, 2002

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Leopards in the Temple is largely concerned with 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 the manifold consequences of the technological revolutions of the last hundred years. However, with the exception of the work of Jonas and Heidegger (and, more recently, studies by Don Ihde and Michael Heim), critiques of technology's influences at the ontological level, as opposed to analyses of collective behaviors, are still relatively rare. For this reason, much of Leopards in the Temple is given over to exploring the way(s) 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 society.

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Review

...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

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.

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