The Rolling Stones and Philosophy_ It's Just a Thought Away - Luke Dick [144]
JERE O’NEILL SURBER’s day gig is being a professor of philosophy and cultural theory at the University of Denver. He’s also a multi-instrumentalist in the Celtic rock band Alehouse Ceilidh and has been known to pick some Irish, bluegrass, and American roots music, as well. He’s published widely in nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy and has been a frequent contributor to the Popular Culture and Philosophy series. And, yep, it’s always been The Stones over The Beatles … and Mick rules!
CRISPIN SARTWELL worked his way through graduate school in the 1980s as a rock critic for many newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Star, High Fidelity, Record, and Circus. His fifteen minutes of fame came in 1997, when he published (in the Philadelphia Inquirer) a decisive mathematical proof that The Stones were better than The Beatles, which landed him on Howard Stern and CNN. He teaches philosophy at Dickinson College and is the author of a number of books, including Political Aesthetics (2010).
CHARLES TALIAFERRO, professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College, is the author or editor of seventeen books including The Image in Mind (with Jil Evans, 2011) and A Brief History of the Soul (with Stewart Goetz, 2011). In January 1973, Charles had a bizarre day that he realized later matched almost perfectly the lyrics of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: There was a girl at a reception with a footloose man, going to a demonstration, and drinking a cherry red soda in a drugstore. Fortunately, there were no blood-stained hands.
RUTH TALLMAN is an assistant professor of philosophy at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. She’s grateful to her brother, Joe, who helped her get some satisfaction by sharing his lifelong love of The Stones with her when she was still a tiny kid.
SETH VANNATTA is an assistant professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore. He is the author of “The Player Prophet and the Phenomenology of Reading the Ref,” in Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game (2010) and editor of the forthcoming Chuck Klosterman and Philosophy. Seth writes about the intersections of philosophy with other elements of culture including law, politics, sports, and education. His favorite Stones track is “T&A.” While his chapter in this volume looks at Keith’s run-in with the law in Arkansas in 1975, Seth did not mention his own run-in on the way to a Stones concert in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1997. Neither Richards nor Vannatta was charged.
Index
Abraham (Biblical)
accountability
AC/DC: “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,”
actors: as musicians; as politicians
aesthetes
aestheticism
aesthetikos
Ali, Lorraine
Allman, Duane
Altamont Speedway Free Festival
American low culture
amorality
Andersen, Christopher
Anger, Kenneth; Invocation of My Demon Brother; Lucifer Rising
The Animals
animal sacrifice
Aphrodite
Apocalypto (movie)
Apollo
Apollonian energy
Aristippus
Aristotle
art: as future history; and illusion; as process; and rules; as work
artist, as performer
Athena
Atkins, Chet
Augustine, Saint; and Church-State alliance; Confessions; on evil; on free will; on Original Sin
Austin, John: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
avant-garde art
Bachmann, Michelle
Bachofen, Johann Jakob
Badiou, Alain
Baker, Ginger
Ball of Fire (movie)
Bangs, Lester
Barger, Sonny
Barrett, Syd
bass players
Bataille, Georges
Baudelaire, Charles; “Damned Women,” ; Flowers of Evil; “Litanies of Satan,”
The Beach Boys
Beatlemania
The Beatles; “Across the Universe,” ; “All You Need Is Love,” ; and American black pop; “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” ; “A Day in the Life,” ; deification of; “Eleanor Rigby,” x; “Glass Onion,” ; “Good Day Sunshine,” ; A Hard Day’s Night;