U2 and Philosophy: How to Decipher an Atomic Band 9780812698138, 0812698134

Table of contents :
Acknowledgments viii
Thinking about U2 ix
PART I See the World in Green and Blue: U2 and the Philosophy of Existence 1
1. "We Can Be One": Love and Platonic Transcendence in U2 MARINA BERZINS McCOY 3
2. Staring at the Sun: U2 and the Experience of Kierkegaardian Despair HUBERT L. DREYFUS and MARK A. WRATHALL 15
3. "If You Want to Kiss the Sky, Better Learn How to Kneel": Existential Christianity in U2 MARK A. WRATHALL 25
4. Philosophizing Place in The Joshua TreeJ EFF MALPAS 43. 5. The Importance of Being Bono: The Philosophy and Politics of Identity in the Lyrics and Personae of U2's Frontman KERRY SOPER 556. "Even Better than the Real Thing"? Postmodernity, the Triumph of the Simulacra, and U2 IAIN THOMSON 73
PART II Don't Mean to Bug Ya The Philosophical Basis of U2's Ethics and Politics 97
7. U2 and the Problem of Evil TRENTON MERRICKS 99
8. U2, Feminism, and Ethics of Care JENNIFER MCCLINTON-TEMPLE and ABIGAIL MYERS 109
9. Why Listen to U2? CRAIG DELANCEY 123. 10. "Until the End of the World": U2, Eschatology, and Heidegger's "Being-toward-Death" V.S. BENFELL III 135PART III Three Chords and the Truth Meaning, Knowledge, and the Power of Music 147
11. "This Music Changed the Shape of the World": U2 and the Phenomenological Understanding of Music BÉATRICE HAN-PILE 149
12. To Find a Song that I Can Sing: What Philosophy of Language Can Tell Us about Popular Success THEODORE GRACYK 163
13. "What You Don't Know, You Can Feel It Somehow": Knowledge, Feeling, and Revelation in U2 TIMOTHY CLEVELAND 177. 14. The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: U2 and Trash CHRIS TOLLEFSEN 18915. Aristotle, U2, and the Abolition of Man: "A Feeling Is So Much Stronger than a Thought" DAVID WERTHER 201
U2 Albums 213
U2 Grammy Awards 214
U2 Internet Resources 216
Author Profiles 217
Index 221.

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