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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch
Title Page
Foreword
Saying Thank You for a Real Good Time
Some Folks Trust to Reason
In the Parking Lot—Fireworks, Calliopes, and Clowns - The Culture of the Dead
1 - Keep Your Day Job: Tie Dyes, Veggie Burritos, and Adam Smith in the Parking Lot
Take a Silver Dollar, Take a Silver Dime
Self-Centered to the Extreme
It’s Brother to Brother and Man to Man
Wave the Flag, Pop the Bag
Need that Cash to Feed that Jones
2 - Community at the Edge of Chaos: The Dead’s Cultural Revolution
Before the Counterculture: The Promise and Betrayal of Liberal Freedoms
Art and Life at the Edge of Chaos
Anarchy, or Zen and the Politics of No-Politics
The Rules of the House
Corpse Mysticum
The Gathering of the Tribe: Ironic Sacramentalism
3 - The Everyday Miracle of the Occasional Community
It’s All on the Same Street
The Other One
Forgetting the Love We Bring
4 - Performance and Property: Archive.org, Authorship, and Authenticity
Conventional versus Natural morality
Author Intent and Respect
Special Status of Authors
Intellectual Property: A Very Brief History
What Kinds of Things Can Be Owned?
Is a Performance the Kind of Thing that Can Be Controlled?
A Solution: Dissolving Special Status
Soundcheck - Describing a Band Beyond Description
5 - The Electric Nietzsche Deadhead Test: The Birth of Tragedy and the ...
A Bus Came By and I Got On
Out of the Spirit of Music
The Book of the Dead
When the Doors of Perception Are Cleansed
The Music Never Stopped
6 - How Dead Beats Became Deadheads: From Emerson and James to Kerouac and Garcia
Emerson and James: Multiplying Nonconformists and Electrifying their Minds
Kerouac and Ginsberg: The Beat Begins
The Dead Bring the Beats New Life
Cowboy Neal Was at the Wheel
Tough and Tender, The Dead Keep Truckin’
7 - Tolstoy’s Favorite Choir
A Band Beyond Description
Words and Art, Thoughts and Feelings
Would You Hear My Voice Come Through the Music?
Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad
Joy and Spiritual Union
Infection and the Greatness of Art
The Real and the Counterfeit: The Thin Line Beyond Which You Really Can’t Fake
High Art and Definition
8 - He’s Gone and Nothing’s Gonna Bring Him Back: The Dead, the dead, and the ...
What Is the Grateful Dead?
Grateful Dead Inc.?
Made of the Same Stuff
Heart (or Liver) and Soul
From Livers to Locke
Surrendering Your Own Little Trip
Was Jerry Garcia the Soul of the Grateful Dead?
Set One—Who’s to Guide You? - Ethical Questions in the Lyrics of the Grateful Dead
9 - A Touch of Grey: Gratefully Dead?
Tuning Up
Live Dead
Sound Check
The Epistemic Bassist
First Set: Acoustic
Immortality: Not that Cool
Second Set: Twin Lead Guitars
An Everlasting Jam
Drum Solo
Four-String Metaphysics
Third Set: Getting a Little Looser
Of Monkeys and Engineers, or Guerilla Gorillas
Unscheduled Jam
Gratitude
Encore
10 - Me and My Uncle . . . and Thomas Hobbes: On the Ethics of Leaving His Dead ...
I’m Beggin’ You Don’t Murder Me: A Sordid Tale of Death
Some Folks Trust to Reason, Others Trust to Might
Your Back Might Need Protection: The Disturbing, Brilliant Hobbes
Once I Was the Student, Now I Am the Master
11 - Buddhism through the Eyes of the Dead
The Beats, the Buddha, and the Dead
The Buddha’s Discovery
Emptiness
Analyzing Emptiness
12 - Blind Hope: Wharf Rat, Levinas, and the Face of August West
Faces
The Face of August West
The Face of Emmanuel Levinas
More than My Wine, More than My Maker
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Some Other Fucker’s Crime
I’ve Got Time to Hear His Story
13 - Eyes of the World: Santayana’s Ontology Set to Music
“Eyes of the World? Heck if I know”
What Do Those Lyrics Mean Anyway?
George Santayana’s World
You Are the Eyes of the World, But . . .
Winter’s Summer Home (the Natural Cycles of the World)
The Spiritual Life
World Traveling
Santayana, the Grateful Dead, and Self-Knowledge
Set Two—What Shall We Say? Shall We Call It by a Name? - The Nature of Nature ...
14 - Thoreau-ing Stones: Wildness at the End of the Natural World
Environmental, Political or Apolitical?
Home for You and Me
The End of Nature
An Ordering of Impermanence
Dizzy with the Possibilities
15 - Mama Tried: Biological Determinism and the Nature-Nurture Distinction
Do We Choose Who and What to Be?
Signs of Things to Come
Biology as Fate
Are We Free?
Nature and Nurture: Can They Be Resolved?
“Just Like Mary Shelley, Just Like Frankenstein”
16 - You Don’t Need Space: A Question of Musical Value
Let the Hurdy Gurdy Play
Crazy or on Drugs
Self-Centered to the Extreme
I Need a Miracle
Two Kinds of Shoulds
Less Concern about the Deep Unreal
So There’s No Accounting for Taste?
17 - Who Was Wise? Decision Theory in “Lady with a Fan”
Uncertain Pains of Hell
Strategy, and Not Disaster
Case 1—The Fair Bet
Case 2—Strategy Was His Strength, and Not Disaster
Case 3—Sailor’s Delight
Case 4—The Sailor Gives At Least a Try
Case 5—But Lost at Love
The Storyteller Makes No Choice
Encore—Mysteries Dark and Vast - Metaphysical Quandaries
18 - I’m Just Playin’ in the Band: Stoicism, Taoism, and Freedom
Listen to the River Sing Sweet Songs
Freedom’s Just Another Word For . . . ?
People Joinin’ Hand in Hand, While the Music Plays the Band
Sometimes We Live No Particular Way but Our Own
19 - Death Don’t Have No Mercy: On the Metaphysics of Loss and Why We Should Be ...
If the Thunder Don’t Get Ya, the Lightning Will
I Need a Miracle: Eternal Life
I’m Begging You Don’t Murder Me
Not Fade Away
I’ll Get Up and Fly Away
Goin’ Down the Road: The Grateful Dead Discography
Playin’ in the Band
The ABCs We All Must Face
ALSO FROM OPEN COURT
Copyright Page
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