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Known as the working man's poet, the Boardwalk prophet, or simply, the Boss. If "love is a banquet at which we feed," Bruce Springsteen has provided much food for thought. In this collection of metaphysical probes, a gang of E-street philosophers will undress Bruce's deeper mysteries like irresistible Jersey girls. Can Springsteen settle the nature-nurture debate through his song "Born to Run"? What do the famous philosopher Ricuoer and Springsteen have in common in their depiction of time? These die-hard Springsteen fans, who just happen to be philosophers, compile an entertaining handbook to the field of Springsteen studies, covering topics like Springsteen's connection to Marx and the proletariat, Springsteen's concept of the soul, and his status as a poet.
Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy Darkness on the Edge of Truth
by Auxier, Randall E.; Anderson, Douglas R.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-04-28
Publisher(s): Open Court
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Table of Contents
| "I Got this Guitar and I Learned How to Make It Talk" | p. xi |
| Born to Run the USA | p. 1 |
| Prophets and Profits: Poets, Preachers and Pragmatists | p. 3 |
| Who's the Boss? Springsteen on the Alienation and Salvation of Work and Labor | p. 17 |
| They Play Guitars All Night and All Day: On the Ethics of Encores | p. 29 |
| Where Were You Born, Bruce Springsteen, and What Does It Matter? | p. 39 |
| On the Cover of the Rolling Stone: Revolution in the U.S.A. | p. 57 |
| When We Were Wild and Innocent | p. 69 |
| Blinded by the Subterranean Homesick Muse: The Poet as Virtuous and Virtuoso | p. 71 |
| Racing in the Street: Freedom, Feminism, and Collateral Damage | p. 93 |
| An Everlasting Kiss: The Seduction of Wendy | p. 103 |
| The Dark Edges | p. 119 |
| Driving with Springsteen into the Darkness at the Edge of the World | p. 121 |
| Thunder Road | p. 133 |
| Everything Dies: Facing Fatalism in "Atlantic City" | p. 149 |
| Living on the Edge: A Reason to Believe | p. 161 |
| Living in "My Hometown": Local Philosophies for Troubled Times | p. 173 |
| Bruce Springsteen or Philosophy | p. 183 |
| Tom Joad's Ghosts | p. 195 |
| Straight Time: Images of Oppression | p. 197 |
| Whatever You Say, Boss: Or, What the Thunder Road Said | p. 211 |
| A Little of that Human Touch: Knowledge and Empathy in the Music of Bruce Springsteen | p. 223 |
| Socrates the Sculptor, Springsteen the Singer: Philosophy and Art Against the Tyrants | p. 235 |
| Elvis, 57 Channels, and a .44 Magnum: A Cross-Section of Springsteen's Imagination | p. 257 |
| Greetings from... | p. 279 |
| Proper Names in Springsteen Lyrics | p. 281 |
| Hey. That's Me | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 291 |
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