The philosophy of the Beats /
Elkholy, Sharin N.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Philosophy and non-philosophy of potato salad / F. Scott Scribner -- Laugh of the revolutionary: Diane di Prima, French feminist philosophy and the contemporary cult of the Beat heroine / Roseanne Giannini Quinn -- Beat U-topos, or, taking Utopia on the road: the case of Jack Kerouac / Christopher Adamo -- Being-at-home: Gary Snyder and the poetics of place / Josh Michael Hayes -- From self-alienation to posthumanism: the transformation of the Burroughsian subject / Michael Sean Bolton -- "I am not an I": performative self(identity) in the poetry of Bob Kaufman / Tom Pynn -- Tongues untied: Beat ethnicities, Beat multiculture / A. Robert Lee -- Joanne Kyger "Descartes and the splendor of": bridging dualisms through collaboration and experimentation / Jane Falk -- John Clellon Holmes and existentialism / Ann Charters -- Wholly communion: poetry, philosophy, and spontaneous bop cinema / David Sterritt -- High off the page: representing the drug experience in the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg / Erik Mortenson -- Genius all the time: the Beats, spontaneous presence, and primordial ground / Marc Olmsted -- Spontaneity, immediacy, and difference: philosophy, being in time, and creativity in the aesthetics of Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, and John Cage / David Need -- Two ways of enduring the flames: the existential dialectics of love in Kierkegaard and Bukowski / Andreas Seland -- Anarchism and the Beats / Ed D'Angelo -- Between social ecology and deep ecology: Gary Snyder's ecological philosophy / Paul Messersmith-Glavin -- William Burroughs as philosopher: from Beat morality to Third Worldism to continental theory / Jones Irwin.
Beat generation.
American literature