[Popular Culture and Philosophy 44] • Led Zeppelin and Philosophy by Calef, Scott -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Foreword Acknowledgments And If You Listen Very Hard . . . 1 - The Ocean’s Roar

What Is the Sublime? Sublime Subtleties Burke and “The Battle of Evermore” “Hammer of the Gods”: Longinus’s Sublime Thunderbolt Boogie with Kant Stairway to the Sublime From Low to High Culture: Where’s That Confounded Bridge?

2 - When All Are One and One Is All

An Inspiration Is What You Are to Me His Is the Force that Lies Within Lots of People Talking (about Creativity) and Few of Them Know It Really Makes Me Wonder The Piper’s Calling You to Join Him So Anytime Somebody Needs You, Don’t Let Them Down Bring It On Home to You

3 - The Song Remains the Same, But Not Always

The Authorship Issue Their Masterpiece? Hanslick’s Thought Experiment Authorship through Transformation Authentic Rock

4 - Black Dog: A Mood Mix

Got a Flame in My Heart Muddying the Waters Hey, Hey, Mama, Say the Way You Mood Gonna Make You Burn, Gonna Make You Sting Big-legged Woman Ain’t Got No Soul Steady Rollin’ Woman Gonna Come My Way Tell Me No Lies, Make Me a Happy Man

5 - Sometimes a Guitar Is Just a Guitar

What Is and What Should Never Be Soul of a Woman was Created Below Trampled Underfoot: Consuming the Her-She Car Custard Pie: Food for Thought My Woman Left Home: Cock Rock and Doomed Relationships I’m Gonna Crawl

6 - The Enviable Lives of Led Zeppelin?

Tell Me that I’m Free to Ride The State of Nature Is in LA Singing of the Good Things

7 - With Flames from the Dragon of Darkness

The Great Beast 666 Page the Mage Do What Thou Wilt Libertinism Libertarianism The Perennial Philosophy True Selves: Found or Made?

8 - Magic Pages and Mythic Plants

It Makes Me Wonder The Magic Runes Are Writ in Gold The Beads of Time Pass Slow Your Head Is Humming, and It Won’t Go If You Listen Very Hard If We All Call the Tune Sometimes All of Our Thoughts Are Misgiven The Voices of Those Who Stand Looking The Dark Lord Rides in Force Tonight To Bring the Balance Back Don’t Be Alarmed Now The Piper’s Calling You to Join Him Sometimes Words Have Two Meanings As We Wind on Down the Road

9 - Presence

Didn’t Take Too Long ’Fore I Found Out What People Mean by . . . “Presence”! Whole Lotta Holes Presence of Mind There’s No Denying You’re Incomplete Big-Legged Woman Ain’t Got No Soul And So I Say to You that Nothing Really Matters Ooh Baby, It’s Cryin’ Time Where the Spirits Go Now I Ain’t Gonna Tell You One Thing that You Really Ought to Know . . . Ooh!

10 - Physical Graffiti

Don’t It Make You Wanna Go and Feel Alright? I Kant Quit You Babe You Didn’t “Mean” Me No Good Close the Door, Put Out the Lights

11 - Let the Son Beat Down

A Traveler of Both Time and Space The Band Remains the Same Father of the Four Winds To Think of Us Again Coda

12 - Celebrating the Agony of Life

Kashmir: The Metaphysics of Homesickness I’m Gonna Crawl: The Eternal Longing of Nature In My Time of Dying: Words Bleed into Music Whole Lotta Love: The Transgressing Will When the Levee Breaks: Excess as Truth

13 - Bring the Balance Back

14 - Your Time Is Gonna Come

Hegel and the Formation of Led Zeppelin The Critics and Led Zeppelin The Struggle for Recognition Recognition and Hierarchy Groupies and Recognition Sex as Recognition The Empowerment of Groupies Led Zeppelin and Art

15 - Reliving the Concert Experience?

Waiting in Line Performing the Concert Ritual Remaining the Same Losing the “Battle of Evermore” Remaining the Same, But in a Less Unique Way Sneaking In through the Back Door

16 - A Bootleg in Your Hedgerow

What’s That Confounded Term, “Property”? A Bundle in Your Hedgerow Whole Lotta Utility The Music Remains the Point? What Is Sold and What Should Never Be Sold Coda

17 - Why We Listen to Led Zeppelin, Really

Music and the Limits of Philosophy Nietzsche’s Re-evaluation of Music Music and Deleuze’s Philosophy of Surfaces I Got My Flow(er), I Got My Power Is Led Zeppelin, after All, the Most Philosophical of Rock Bands?

Many Times I’ve Wondered: 77 Zep Facts, Anecdotes, and Trivia Top Eleven Contributor Top Ten Lists Elders of the Gentle Race With a Word She Can Get What She Came For Copyright Page