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Popular Culture and Philosophy
Title Page
Dedication
Liner Notes
Acknowledgements
Side 1
1 - Planet Waves: Dylan’s Symposium
Young Love and Lovin’ the One You’re With
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Love Minus Zero, No Limit or Going, Going Gone
2 - “I Used to Care, but Things Have Changed”: Passion and the Absurd in ...
Existential Attunement to Blood on the Tracks
“Brownsville Girl” and Infinite Resignation
Oh Mercy: The Stage Sets Collapse
Further into the Absurd: Time Out of Mind
The Ends of Despair: From “Things Have Changed” to “Love and Theft”
3 - Who Killed Medgar Evers?
What Is a Pawn?
Recognizing Pawns
Judging Pawns
The Mystery Solved
4 - Great White Wonder: The Morality Of Bootlegging Bob
Waddya Mean?
Is This Stuff Any Good?
But Is It Right?
Aren’t They Ripping Him Off?
So, What’s the Bottom Line?
5 - Just Like a Woman: Dylan, Authenticity, and the Second Sex
Dylan’s Critique of Urban Materialism
Dylan and Existentialism: I Shall Be Free
Dylan’s Idealized Women: Her Hair Hanging Long
Dylan’s Interaction with Feminism
Dylan’s Utopian Visions: Shelter from the Storm
Sick of Love?
6 - “Far Between Sundown’s Finish An’ Midnight’s Broken Toll”: Enlightenment ...
Enlightenment, Progress, and Courts that Are on the Level
Wanting Everyone to Be Free: Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom
Postmodernism: Questioning Reason and Progress
There’s Too Much Confusion: Postmodern Ambiguity
Protest as Just More Propaganda
Deconstructive Critique and Postmodern Paradoxes: Nothing to Win and Nothing to Lose?
Both Sides of Dylan and Politics
7 - “To Live Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest”: Freedom in Dylan’s Lyrics
Negation
Affirmation
Synthesis
8 - We Call It a Snake: Dylan Reclaims the Creative Word
No Naming an Animal as Smooth as Glass
In the Beginning
Long Time Ago
I Think I Won’t Call It a Snake
Man Gave a Name to a Lake
Side 2
9 - Bob Dylan’s Truth
“The Truth Is True Whether You Wanna Believe It or Not”
Searching for the Truth (the Way God Designed It)
The Blessings of Tranquility
10 - The Free Will in Bob Dylan
Twisting Fate
Forces of Change
Determinism
Being Responsible in a Determinist World
Moral Autonomy
11 - “I Got My Bob Dylan Mask On”: Bob Dylan and Personal Identity
The Mask of Zimmerman
Who Is Bob Dylan?
“I’ll Remember You”
A Soul Man?
“Nobody’s Bob Dylan”
12 - With God (and Socrates and Augustine) On Our Side
Every Grain of Sand
Ain’t No Man Righteous
Death Is Not the End
Look Up, Look Up
13 - Busy Being Born Again: Bob Dylan’s Christian Philosophy
Strengthen the Things that Remain
Dylan’s Assimilation of the Christian Narrative
We Live in a Moral Universe.
The Moral Law Is Objectively True
It Is Important that We Practice Virtue
A Call to Unchanging Truths
14 - Language On the Lam(b): Tarantula in Dylan and Nietzsche
Two Tarantulas
The Giving of Advice, the Renaming of Names
Resentment and Revenge
The Intuitive Artist
The Abuse of Metaphor
Tarantula’s End
15 - When I Paint My Masterpiece: What Sort Of Artist Is Bob Dylan?
What Makes Someone an Artist?
Artists and Expression
Artists and Form
Artists, Meaning, and Genius
Last Thoughts
16 - You Who Philosophize Dylan: The Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry in ...
Just Like a Woman’s Intuition
Nostalgia and Nihilism
“The Foggy Ruins of Time”
The Bob Dylan Discography
The Mongrel Dogs
Reciting the Alphabet
ALSO FROM OPEN COURT
Copyright Page
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