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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 Homer
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Table of contents
- HEROES OF THE DAY: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- HIT THE LIGHTS
- Disc 1 ON THROUGH THE NEVER
- 1 WHISPER THINGS INTO MY BRAIN: Metallica,Emotion,and Morality
- 2 THIS SEARCH GOES ON: Christian,Warrior,Buddhist
- 3 ALCOHOLICA: When Sweet Amber Becomes the Master of Puppets
- 4 THROUGH THE MIST AND THE MADNESS: Metallica ’s Message of Nonconformity,Individuality, and Truth
- Disc 2 EXISTENSICA: METALLICA MEETS EXISTENTIALISM
- 5 THE METAL MILITIA AND THE EXISTENTIALIST CLUB
- 6 THE STRUGGLE WITHIN: Hetfield,Kierkegaard,and the Pursuit of Authenticity
- 7 METALLICA,NIETZSCHE, AND MARX: The Immorality of Morality
- 8 METALLICA ’S EXISTENTIAL FREEDOM: From We to I and Back Again
- Disc 3 LIVING AND DYING, LAUGHING AND CRYING
- 9 TO LIVE IS TO DIE: Metallica and the Meaning of Life
- 10 MADNESS IN THE MIRROR OF REASON: Metallica and Foucault on Insanity and Con •nement
- 11 RIDE THE LIGHTNING: Why Not Execute Killers?
- 12 LIVING AND DYING AS ONE: Suffering and the Ethics of Euthanasia
- 13 FADE TO BLACK: Absurdity,Suicide, and the Downward Spiral
- Disc 4 METAPHYSICA, EPISTEMOLOGICA, METALLICA
- 14 BELIEVER,DECEIVER: Metallica,Perception, and Reality
- 15 TRAPPED IN MYSELF: “One ” and the Mind-Body Problem
- 16 IS IT STILL METALLICA?: On the Identity of Rock Bands Over Time
- Disc 5 FANS AND THE BAND
- 17 METALLICA DROPS A LOAD: What Do Bands and Fans Owe Each Other?
- 18 THE UNSOCIAL SOCIABILITY OF HUMANS AND METAL GODS
- 19 BOYS INTERRUPTED: The Drama of Male Bonding in Some Kind of Monster
- 20 JUSTICE FOR ALL?: Metallica ’s Argument Against Napster and Internet File Sharing
- WHO ’S WHO IN THE METAL MILITIA
- THE PHANTOM LORD ’S INDEX