[Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture 37] • Black Sabbath and Philosophy by Irwin, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication Introduction Acknowledgments Part I: NECESSARY EVIL

Chapter 1: Beyond Good and Evil

Chapter 2: Masters of a Better Possible Reality

Evil Is a Problem Pictures of Evil Imagining a Better Reality Evil on Stage

Chapter 3: “Is It the End, My Friend?” Black Sabbath’s Apocalypse of Horror

Birmingham Apocalypse Last Things Satan Smiling: War and Judgment Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: Death and Deliverance Planet Caravan: Journeys of Time and Space The End Is Near

Part II: PLAYING DEVIL’S ADVOCATE

Chapter 4: Black Sabbath and the Sound of Evil

Sinister Sounds Ask Sabbath (Fretting) Hand of Doom “Going Through (Key) Changes . . .” Sabbath Matters

Chapter 5: The Worst of All Possible Worlds

One Shot at Glory But Against All Odds … For Those Who Sow in Flames, an Explanation The Original Diabolus in Musica Some Final Seeds of Hate

Chapter 6: Tony Iommi’s Hand of Doom

Part III: THE DARK ART OF METAL

Chapter 7: The Art of Black Sabbath

Bringing Aristotle up to Date Aristotle Joins Black Sabbath The Need for Dark Art The Need to Shake up Your Mind Sweet Leaf?

Chapter 8: Black Sabbath and the Problem of Defining Metal

Why Do We Need Categories? Metal Conditions? All in the Sabbath Family Black Sabbath as a Prototype for Heavy Metal Go Forth and Find New Prototypes

Chapter 9: Saint Vitus Dance

The Devil’s Dictionary What About Paint Vomited onto a Canvas? Coughing Art Was Doom in the Air? Standards of Doom Sons of Sabbath

Chapter 10: Gods, Drugs, and Ghosts

In Praise of Sweet Leaf and COKE-Cola The Birth of Tragedy and the Birth of Heavy Metal Goat Songs and Clowns A Satanic Interlude If Nietzsche Had Been a Black Sabbath Fan What Is This That Stands Before Me? Warning: Not for Mere Mortals

Part IV: IS IT STILL SABBATH WITHOUT OZZY?

Chapter 12: Fightin’ Words

Bands vs Line-Ups A Sabbath By Any Other Name Would Be as Black Going Through Changes Criteria, Bloody Criteria How Essential Is the Ozzman? Which “Sabbath” Is Really Sabbath?

Chapter 13: The Name Remains the Same—But Should It?

On This Album, the Role of the Singer Will Be Played By … I Saw It, I Saw It, I Tell You No Lies Treating People Just Like Pawns in Chess No Stranger to Record Companies Sick and Tired … of Changes

Part V: SYMPTOMS OF THE UNIVERSE

Chapter 14: Wicked World

“People Got to Work Just to Earn Their Bread” “Day of Judgment, God Is Calling” “Black Sabbath” “The Wizard” “N.I.B.” “Wicked World” “War Pigs” Final Judgment

Chapter 15: “Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen”

Ozzy’s Insanity and Descartes’ Demon How Not to Fall “Into the Void” of Skepticism What Can Ozzy Know? Is This Cause to Be Paranoid?

Chapter 16: “As the War Machine Keeps Turning”

War Is Hell Why Should They Go Out to Fight? Necessary Evil or Overkill? Until the Day the War Drums Beat No More When War Is Obsolete “Win the Fight for Peace”

Chapter 17: Stop Stereotyping Sabbath

Let’s Not Be Hasty Here . . . Practically Clubbing Women Cavemen Get a Bad Rap and a Bad Rep She Was My Woman . . . I Loved Her So . . . Crunchy Pleasure

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