Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays, 1990-2000University Press of America, 2001 - 191 sidor 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. |
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NOTES FROM THE SHADOW OF CHERNOBYL | 1 |
THE DESCENT OF JOHN HENRYS HAMMER | 11 |
WHY WE STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOMB | 23 |
CHARLES IS AN ANGEL OF GOODNESS | 37 |
THE BEAUTY OF HER VAULT | 47 |
AVATARS OF THE TURTLES | 59 |
THE TWO INFINITES | 73 |
BARBIE AND JANE VERSUS THE WOODEN NUTMEGS OF CONNECTICUT | 91 |
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? | 123 |
PAPER OR PLASTIC? YOU DECIDE | 131 |
MYTHOPOESIS AND THE MARKETPLACE | 141 |
EXPECTING THE BARBARIANS | 149 |
LEOPARDS IN THE TEMPLE | 157 |
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SURVIVING THE FALL | 107 |
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