[Popular Culture and Philosophy 39] • Jimmy Buffett and Philosophy by Mckenna, Erin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Jimmy Buffett, Cultural Infidel Coral Reefer Reason

1 - A Pirate Looks at 400 B.C.E.

Philosophizing in ¾ time A Pirate Looks At 400 B.C.E. The Person Your Parents Warned You About Wisdom Under the Mango Tree That’s His Story and He’s Stickin’ to It

2 - Drinking the American Dream

Redreaming the Dream Competing: American Stoicism Dreaming the Drink Drinking the Dream Banana Republics: Excesses in Paradise Too Much Tequila, Or Not Quite Enough

3 - Martin Heidegger in Margaritaville

“Havana Daydreamin”: The Value of Escapism “There’s Nothing Soft” about Being Existence, Just Another “Tampico Trauma” Freiburger in Paradise Exploring the Tidal Pools of Existence Jimmy Buffett: “Singer of Inordinate Tunes” and Heideggerian Troubadour

4 - Licensed to Chill

“Growing Older But Not Up” “Always Take the Weather with You” “That Frozen Concoction” “Trip Around the Sun”

Parrotology

5 - Balance on the Water

Transformative Process: Changes in Attitudes The Adventurer: A Pirate’s Life Set Adrift: The Disorienting Dilemma Disorientation: “I Don’t Know Where I’m a Gonna Go” Exploration: “Lookin’ for Better Days” Re-Orientation: “Wonder Why We Ever Go Home” “Livin’ It Up”

6 - Meeting a Salty Piece of Land

“All the Tourists Covered with Oil” Anchors in Experience: Encountering A Salty Piece of Land “When the Coast is Clear”

Piratology

7 - Jimmy Buffett, Pop Prophet

Altered Boy Why Don’t We Get Drunk . . . in 1973 Another Page in History, a Stepping Stone for You and Me Let the Rat Race Run Roll Around I Don’t Go to Church and I Don’t Cut My Hair But I Can Go to the Movies and See ... Semi-True Stories The Missionary

8 - Buffett the Ironic Pirate

9 - An Altar Boy Covers His Ass

Why Moralists Hate Fruitcakes One Particular Baker The Dread Pirate Benedict de Buffett Three-Finger Rule? Depends Which Is the Fourth An Altar Boy’s Public Penance

Smart Women and Fruitcakes

10 - A Feminist Looks at Jimmy Buffett

Smart Women (in Long Skirts) Barnacle Brains and the Need to be Flexible Fins, Bait, Drinking, and Sex Desdemona, Trevor, Cleopatra, and Sophie “Happily Ever After, Now and Then”

11 - Fruitcakes

Baking Fruitcakes and the Performance of Normalcy Fruitcakes as Political Actors The Fruitcake as Performative Exemplar

Margarita Metaphysics

12 - The American West as a Coral Reef

Lookin’ Back at My Background “Migration” Westerners and Coral Reefs Wonder Why We Ever Go Home

13 - Fly-Fishing and the Ecology of Music

“Music for the Money” “A Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling” “King of Somewhere Hot” “The Blue-Marlin Tango” The Ecology of Music “Where Did All the Good Songs Go?”

14 - Dead Reckoning and Tacking in the Winds of Fortune and Fate

A Dead White Dude and an Incarnation There but for Fortune. . . An Over Forty Victim of Fate Methinks There Is Madness in His Method Meet Me in Memphis All of the Places Makes Me Want to Go Back Again All of the Faces “It’s Five o’Clock Somewhere” Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling A Prince of a Guy I Really Do Appreciate the Fact You’re Sittin’ Here The Fickle Finger Providence “Livin’ and Dyin’ in Three-Quarter Time”

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