Metallica and Philosophy - William Irwin - 2020
A Crash Course in Brain Surgery

By: William Irwin
Narrated by: Jeff Preston
Length: 11 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-09-20
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Music, Popular Culture, History & Criticism
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo

Publisher's Summary:

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

©2007 William Irwin (P)2009 Tantor Audio

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