Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery

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 Homer

Author: William Irwin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 04/23/2007
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.08w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9781405163484
ISBN10: 1405163488
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | General
- Music | Genres & Styles | Heavy Metal
- Music | History & Criticism | General

About the Author
William Irwin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania. He has edited Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing; The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer (with Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble); and Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction (with Gregory Bassham, H. Nardone, and J. Wallace). He is also the author of Intentionalist Interpretation: A Philosophical Explanation and Defense and editor of The Death and Resurrection of the Author.

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