Bob Dylan and philosophy : it's alright, ma (I'm only thinking)
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Bob Dylan and philosophy : it's alright, ma (I'm only thinking)
（Popular culture and philosophy / series editor, William Irwin, v. 17）
Open Court, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. 195-196), and index
Contents of Works
- Planet waves : Dylan's symposium / Doug Anderson
- "I used to care, but things have changed" : passion and the absurd in Dylan's later work / Rick Anthony Furtak
- Who killed Medgar Evers? / Avery Kolers
- Great white wonder : the morality of bootlegging Bob / James C. Klagge
- Just like a woman : Dylan, authenticity, and the second sex / Kevin Krein and Abigail Levin
- "Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll" : enlightenment and postmodernism in Dylan's social criticism / Jordy Rocheleau
- "To live outside the law, you must be honest" : freedom in Dylan's lyrics / Elizabeth Brake
- We call it a snake : Dylan reclaims the creative word / Ruvik Danieli and Anat Biletzki
- Bob Dylan's truth / Michael Chiariello
- The free will in Bob Dylan / Martin Van Hees
- "I got my Bob Dylan mask on" : Bob Dylan and personal identity / Peter Vernezze and Paul Lulewicz
- With God (and Socrates and Augustine) on our side / James S. Spiegel
- Busy being born again : Bob Dylan's Christian philosophy / Francis J. Beckwith
- Language on the lam(b) : tarantula in Dylan and Nietzsche / David Goldblatt and Edward Necarsulmer IV
- When I paint my masterpiece : what sort of artist is Bob Dylan? / Theodore Gracyk
- You who philosophize Dylan : the quarrel between philosophy and poetry in the songs of Bob Dylan / Kevin L. Stoehr
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Description
The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan’s output are covered, from his early acoustic folk ballads and anthem-like protest songs to his controversial switch to electric guitar to his sometimes puzzling, often profound music of the 1970s and beyond. The book examines different aspects of Dylan’s creative thought through a philosophical lens, including personal identity, negative and positive freedom, enlightenment and postmodernism in his social criticism, and the morality of bootlegging. An engaging introduction to deep philosophical truths, the book provides Dylan fans with an opportunity to learn about philosophy while impressing fans of philosophy with the deeper implications of his intellectual achievements.
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