The Rolling Stones and Philosophy_ It's Just a Thought Away - Luke Dick [143]
KEEGAN GOODMAN lives in Brooklyn and is a graduate student at Stony Brook University, where he focuses on nineteenth-century German philosophy. He grew up in the country and first heard the Rolling Stones on the radio while rolling down the highway in a pickup truck late one night. The song was “Under My Thumb,” about thirty years after the Stones played it at Altamont.
For years JOHN HUSS’s band, the John Huss Moderate Combo, was the voice of suburban politesse in Chicago pubs and clubs. John co-wrote the cult classic movie Use Your Head (1996). He co-edited (with David Werther) Johnny Cash and Philosophy: The Burning Ring of Truth (2008) and is now editing Planet of the Apes and Philosophy. In his spare time he is assistant professor of philosophy at The University of Akron.
BILL MARTIN is the author of Avant Rock, Listening to the Future, and other books about progressive rock music that have drawn praise from philosophers, music critics, and even musicians whose work he writes about, such as Robert Fripp and Chris Squire. He has contributed to Bass Player magazine and numerous philosophy journals, and is a professor of philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago.
RICK MAYOCK gets his fair share of abuse as a musician and songwriter in Los Angeles. He’s also practiced at the art of deception, teaching philosophy at West Los Angeles College. He has contributed chapters to The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think that Can’t be Thunk (2006), The Office and Philosophy: Scenes from the Unexamined Life (2008), and the forthcoming The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy.
PHILIP MERKLINGER is professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus, in Alberta. He received his PhD from the University of Ottawa in 1991. He’s the author of Philosophy, Theology, and Hegel’s Berlin Philosophy of Religion, 1821–1827 (1993). His main research interests include the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of Hegel and Heidegger, and the philosophy of spirituality. With Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! presently on eternal shuffle in his office, he completing a book on the philosophy of spirituality and is preparing a course on the philosophy of rock music.
GEORGE REISCH is a historian of twentieth-century philosophy and Series Editor for the Popular Culture and Philosophy series. He teaches philosophy and intellectual history at Northwestern University, edited Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with That Axiom, Eugene! (2007), and co-edited Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive (2009). George has written about rock music for Stereophile magazine and Popmatters.com. He is currently writing a book about philosophy and brainwashing.
JAMES ROCHA is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University, where he teaches and researches in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of race. He has been searching for hidden ethical messages in supposedly Satanic songs played forwards ever since he was told as a child that one could find Satanic messages in regular songs played backwards.
STEPHANIE ST. MARTIN was born sometime between the releases of Tattoo You and Dirty Work (she’s “So Young”). An Adjunct Philosophy Professor at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, Massachusetts, and a Marketing Associate at Care.com, she has a newfound respect for those adolescents who chose to be morally impotent and stayed out past curfew to listen to the Rolling Stones. When philosophy isn’t giving her enough satisfaction, she enjoys going on Twitter (you can follow her@StephStMartin), struttin’ and shakin’ like Mick Jagger, and trying to figure out how to be immortal like Keith Richards. She credits her education at Boston College, especially her time in the late Fr. Joseph Flanagan’s classroom and in his Perspectives Program, in helping her to “relish