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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Thinking about U2
Part I: See the World in Green and Blue: U2 and the Philosophy of Existence
1. “We Can Be One”: Love and Platonic Transcendence in U2
2. Staring at the Sun: U2 and the Experience of Kierkegaardian Despair
3. “If You Want to Kiss the Sky, Better Learn How to Kneel”: Existential Christianity in U2
4. Philosophizing Place in The Joshua Tree
5. The Importance of Being Bono: The Philosophy and Politics of Identity in the Lyrics and Personae of U2’s Frontman
6. “Even Better than the Real Thing”? Postmodernity, the Triumph of the Simulacra, and U2
Part II: I Don’t Mean to Bug Ya: The Philosophical Basis of U2’s Ethics and Politics
7. U2 and the Problem of Evil
8. U2, Feminism, and Ethics of Care
9. Why Listen to U2?
10. “Until the End of the World”: U2, Eschatology, and Heidegger’s ‘Being-toward-Death’
Part III: Three Chords and the Truth: Meaning, Knowledge, and the Power of Music
11. “This Music Changed the Shape of the World”: U2 and the Phenomenological Understanding of Music
12. To Find A Song that I Can Sing: What Philosophy of Language Can Tell Us about Popular Success
13. “What You Don’t Know, You Can Feel It Somehow”: Knowledge, Feeling, and Revelation in U2
14. The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: U2 and Trash
15. Aristotle, U2, and the Abolition of Man: “A Feeling Is So Much Stronger than a Thought”
U2 Albums
U2 Grammy Awards
U2 Internet Resources
Author Profiles
Index
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