[Popular Culture and Philosophy 32] • Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy by Auxier, Randall -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Dedication “I Got this Guitar and I Learned How to Make It Talk” I - Born to Run the USA

1 - Prophets and Profits: Poets, Preachers, and Pragmatists

Four Chords and a Cloud of Dust Rising and Falling Pragmatists, Poets, and Preachers A Pop Quiz Prophets Proper Fishing with Bruce and Jonah “Honey, Let’s Invite the Prophet to Dinner” Give Me the Bad News First And the Good News Second

2 - Who’s the Boss? Springsteen on the Alienation and Salvation of Work and Labor

Now My Boss Don’t Dig Me ’cause He Put Me on the Night Shift I Bought a Bourgeois House in the Hollywood Hills I Would Not Do Heaven’s Work Well I Keep My Heart in My Work, but Trouble’s in My Head Quittin’ Time

3 - They Play Guitars All Night and All Day: On the Ethics of Encores

The Hunters and the Hunted: The State of Nature and the Social Contract Trying to Learn How to Walk Like Heroes: The Basis for Moral Obligations You May Wonder How Come I Love You: Care and Ethics

4 - Where Were You Born, Bruce Springsteen, and What Does It Matter?

Identity Politics Patriotic Nationalism Does It Still Matter Where You Were Born? Unity Born from Diversity

5 - On the Cover of the Rolling Stone: Revolution in the U.S.A.

Canned Revolutions Is Springsteen Co-opted? Gonna Buy Five Copies for My Mother Socratic Revolution? Art for Freedom’s Sake The Best Policy Springsteen’s Revolution

II - When We Were Wild and Innocent

6 - Blinded by the Subterranean Homesick Muse: The Poet as Virtuous and Virtuoso

A Grudge Match The Tenth Muse The Early Rounds: History, Tragedy, Comedy, and the Stars Sam Houston’s Ghost Canadian Border Five Miles from Here Dancing in the Light The Poetic Virtue You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Program

7 - Racing in the Street: Freedom, Feminism, and Collateral Damage

Racing in the Street: A Man’s Freedom “Fast Car”: A Woman’s Freedom A Fork in the Road

8 - An Everlasting Kiss: The Seduction of Wendy

Dreams and Visions Falling for Wendy The Wild and the Innocent Darkness on the Edge of Town Captain Hook The Crocodile The Kiss

III - The Dark Edges

9 - Driving with Springsteen into the Darkness at the Edge of the World

Powershifting on the Rattlesnake Speedway Strange Creepin’ on the Spooky Turnpike Rubbernecking at Death on the Highway The Never-ending Stretch of Badlands Real World, Real Struggle The Inevitability of the Price You Pay Reason to Believe When There’s None

10 - Thunder Road

The Screen Door Slams, Mary’s Dress Waves Ghosts in the Eyes . . . Across the Porch . . . While the Radio Plays . . . Facing Myself Alone Again . . . Young Anymore? Hey! You’re Alright! Redemption . . . Magic in the Night . . . Pulling Out of Here . . . to Win? Case the Promised Land

11 - Everything Dies : Facing Fatalism in “Atlantic City”

Living in “Atlantic City”—Permanently Afflicted Celebrating Transience

12 - Living on the Edge : A Reason to Believe

Edging toward the Darkness Feeling Edgy The Cutting Edge Between the Edges Over the Edge? Blurring the Edges Living on the Edge Back from the Edge

13 - Living in “My Hometown”: Local Philosophies for Troubled Times

Troubled Times Local Philosophies Hometown Security

14 - Bruce Springsteen or Philosophy

A City of Winners and Losers This Tree of Evil Nebraska All the Redemption I Can Offer Bruce and Philosophy Moments of Redemption

IV - Tom Joad’s Ghosts

15 - Straight Time: Images of Oppression

Got a Job at the Rendering Factory Got Out of Prison Back in ’86 Straight Time Best Remember Who Your Friends Are Eight Years In, It Feels Like You’re Gonna Die Driftin’ Off to a Foreign Land

16 - Whatever You Say, Boss: Or, What the Thunder Road Said

I Mean what I Say and I Say What I Mean The Sounds of Silence Truth versus Opinion Multiple Meanings the Easy Way Multiple Meanings the Post-Modern Way The Final Word: That’s Right, I Said Preliminary Thoughts

17 - A Little of that Human Touch: Knowledge and Empathy in the Music of Bruce Springsteen

I Got My Facts Learned Real Good A Little of that Human Touch Living Proof The Ties that Bind Ain’t No Sin to Be Glad You’re Alive Lonesome Day

18 - Socrates the Sculptor, Springsteen the Singer: Philosophy and Art Against ...

The Sculptor: Abducted! The Singer: Abducted! Elenchus and Epoche The Good City The Luxurious City The Bad City Springsteen’s Martyrdom

19 - Elvis, 57 Channels, and a .44 Magnum: A Cross-Section of Springsteen’s Imagination

Neural Novacaine “What It Is?!?” The Famous Ontologies Elvis and the .44 Magnum: The Poetic and Aesthetic Use of Proper Names Shaniqua’s Coffee and Theresa’s Backbone Perrineville And Try to Stay Awake A Brief Stab at Advanced Ontology Suicide Machines The Passion of the Boss But I Digress The Story of the Moral Straight Time Epilogue

V - Greetings from . . .

Proper Names in Springsteen Lyrics

Persons Places in the USA Places outside the USA Things

Hey, That’s Me Index Copyright Page

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