Free Download Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery (Audiobook)
English | July 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08C43BN79 | M4B@64 kbps | 11 hours | 288 MB
Editor: William Irwin | Narrator: Jeff Preston
Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you’re about to enter the School of Rock! Today’s lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school – they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia.
A provocative study of the "thinking man’s" metal bandMaps out the connections between Aristotle, Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Metallica, to demonstrate the band’s philosophical significanceUses themes in Metallica’s work to illuminate topics such as freedom, truth, identity, existentialism, questions of life and death, metaphysics, epistemology, the mind-body problem, morality, justice, and what we owe one anotherDraws on Metallica’s lyrical content, Lars Ulrich’s relationship with Napster, as well as the documentary Some Kind of MonsterServes as a guide for thinking through the work of one of the greatest rock bands of all time
