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001 2006011454
003 DLC
005 20081208140653.0
008 060404s2006 ilu bk 001 0 eng
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020 $a0812695992 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aML421.U2$bU13 2006
082 00 $a782.42166092/2$222
245 00 $aU2 and philosophy :$bhow to decipher an atomic band /$cedited by Mark A. Wrathall.
260 $aChicago :$bOpen Court,$cc2006.
300 $axvi, 228 p. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aPopular culture and philosophy ;$vv. 21
520 $a"A collection of essays about the rock band U2 and lead singer Bono focusing on philosophical and ethical aspects of their music and political activities"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 216) and index.
504 $aIncludes discography: p. 213.
505 0 $aSee the world in green and blue : U2 and the philosophy of existence -- "We can be one" : love and platonic transcendence in U2 / Marina Berzins McCoy -- Staring at the sun : U2 and the experience of Kierkegaardian despair / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall -- "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel" : existential Christianity in U2 / Mark A. Wrathall -- Philosophizing place in The joshua tree / Jeff Malpas -- The importance of being Bono : the philosophy and politics of identity in the lyrics and personae of U2's frontman / Kerry Soper -- "Even better than the real thing"? : postmodernity, the triumph of the simulacra, and U2 / Iain Thomson -- I don't mean to bug ya : the philosophical basis of U2's ethics and politics -- U2 and the problem of evil / Trenton Merricks -- U2, feminism, and ethics of care / Jennifer McClinton-Temple and Abigail Myers -- Why listen to U2? / Craig DeLancey -- "Until the end of the world" : U2, eschatology, and Heidegger's "being-toward-death" / V.S. Benfell III -- Three chords and the truth : meaning, knowledge, and the power of music -- "This music changed the shape of the world" : U2 and the phenomenological understanding of music / Béatrice Han-Pile -- To find a song that I can sing : what philosophy of language can tell us about popular success / Theodore Gracyk -- "What you don't know, you can feel it somehow" : knowledge, feeling, and revelation in U2 / Timothy Cleveland -- The ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry : U2 and trash / Chris Tollefsen -- Aristotle, U2, and the abolition of man : "a feeling is so much stronger than a thought" / David Werther.
610 20 $aU2 (Musical group)
650 0 $aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics.
650 0 $aRock music$xSocial aspects$zIreland.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zIreland.
700 1 $aWrathall, Mark A.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006011454.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2006011454-d.html