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Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you?re about to enter the School of Rock! Today?s lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school?they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia. A provocative study of the ?thinking man?s? metal band Maps out the connections between Aristotle, Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Metallica, to demonstrate the band?s philosophical significance Uses themes in Metallica?s work to illuminate topics such as freedom, truth, identity, existentialism, questions of life and death, metaphysics, epistemology, the mind-body problem, morality, justice, and what we owe one another Draws on Metallica?s lyrical content, Lars Ulrich?s relationship with Napster, as well as the documentary Some Kind of Monster Serves as a guide for thinking through the work of one of the greatest rock bands of all time Compiled by the editor of Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing and The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D?oh! of HomerProduct Identifiers
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons AND Sons LTD
ISBN-139781405163484
eBay Product ID (ePID)88989685
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Book TitleMetallica and Philosophy: a Crash Course in Brain Surgery
AuthorWilliam Irwin
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicMusic, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year2007
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
Additional Product Features
Series TitleThe Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
EditorWilliam Irwin
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom