Leopards in the Temple: Studies in American Popular Culture - Hardcover

Carter, Steven

9781573093262: Leopards in the Temple: Studies in American Popular Culture

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573093262 ISBN 13: 9781573093262

Publisher: International Scholars Publications,U.S., 1998

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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Leopards in the Temple 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 excepti... Full description

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

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