Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery [Audiobook]
English | July 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08C43BN79 | M4B@64 kbps | 11 hours | 288 MB
Editor: William Irwin | Narrator: Jeff Preston
English | July 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08C43BN79 | M4B@64 kbps | 11 hours | 288 MB
Editor: William Irwin | Narrator: Jeff Preston
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