The Grateful Dead and philosophy : getting high minded about love and Haight / edited by Steven Gimbel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gimbel, Steven, 1968-

Series:

Popular culture and philosophy ; 28.

Popular culture and philosophy ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and philosophy.

Deadheads (Music fans).

Grateful Dead (Musical group).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is another one of those late-night Grateful Dead inspired dorm room conversations with friends . . . only this time it's your professors sitting cross-legged on the floor asking if anyone else wants to order a pizza.The Grateful Dead emerged from the San Francisco counter-culture movement of the late 1960s to become an American icon. Part of the reason they remain an institution four decades later is that they and their fans, the Deadheads, embody deviation from social, artistic, and industry norms. From the beginning, the Grateful Dead has represented rethinking what

Contents:

Contents; FOREWORD: Half Baseball Game, Half Church; Saying Thank You for a Real Good Time; Some Folks Trust to Reason; In the Parking Lot-Fireworks, Calliopes, and Clowns: The Culture of the Dead; 1. Keep Your Day Job: Tie Dyes, Veggie Burritos, and Adam Smith in the Parking Lot -STEVEN GIMBEL and BRENDAN CUSHING-DANIELS; 2. Community at the Edge of Chaos: The Dead's Cultural Revolution -HORACE L. FAIRLAMB; 3. The Everyday Miracle of the Occasional Community -JOHN DRABINSKI; 4. Performance and Property: Archive.org, Authorship, and Authenticity -PETER BRADLEY

Soundcheck: Describing a Band Beyond Description5. The Electric Nietzsche Deadhead Test: The Birth of Tragedy and the Psychedelic Experience -DAVID MACGREGOR JOHNSTON; 6. How Dead Beats Became Deadheads: From Emerson and James to Kerouac and Garcia -GARY CIOCCO; 7. Tolstoy's Favorite Choir -MICHAEL GETTINGS; 8. He's Gone and Nothing's Gonna Bring Him Back:The Dead, the dead, and the Grateful Dead -JOHN UGLIETTA; Set One-Who's to Guide You?: Ethical Questions in the Lyrics of the Grateful Dead; 9. A Touch of Grey: Gratefully Dead? -RANDALL E. AUXIER

10. Me and My Uncle . . . and Thomas Hobbes: On the Ethics of Leaving His Dead Ass There by the Side of the Road -JOHANNES BULHOF11. Buddhism through the Eyes of the Dead -PAUL GASS; 12. Blind Hope: Wharf Rat, Levinas, and the Face of August West -STEPHEN STERN; 13. Eyes of the World: Santayana's Ontology Set to Music -JESSICA WAHMAN; Set Two-What Shall We Say? Shall We Call It by a Name?: The Nature of Nature and Knowledge; 15. Mama Tried: Biological Determinism and the Nature-Nurture Distinction -CHUCK WARD; 16. You Don't Need Space: A Question of Musical Value -MARY MACLEOD

17. Who Was Wise? Decision Theory in "Lady with a Fan" -STEPHEN G. DILLINGHAMEncore-MysteriesDark and Vast: Metaphysical Quandaries; 18. I'm Just Playin' in the Band: Stoicism, Taoism, and Freedom -MATTHEW TURNER; 19. Death Don't Have No Mercy: On the Metaphysics of Loss and Why We Should Be Grateful for Death -IAN DUCKLES and ERIC M. RUBENSTEIN; Goin' Down the Road:The Grateful Dead Discography; Playin' in the Band; The ABCs We All Must Face

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes discography: p. 239-240.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-09469-X

9786613094698

0-8126-9744-8

OCLC:

714569641