Bowie
By: Critchely
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781939293541
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Music and philosophy; Criticism and interpretation
Description: Critchley, whose writings on philosophy have garnered widespread praise, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his dull life in southern England’s suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and identity are turned inside out in Bowie’s work.
Table of contents: title: My first sexual experience; title: Episodic blips; title: The art's filthy lesson; title: Wonderful; title: I am a Heideggerian bore; title: Utopian something; title: A seer is a liar; title: Hold on to nothing; title: Hamlet in space; title: Dystopia... Get it here, thing; title: Les tricoteuses; title: The majesty of the absurd; title: Illusion to illusion; title: Discipline; title: Disappearance; title: Yearning; title: You say you'll leave me; title: Giving up on reality; title: Playing on God's grave; title: Nothing to fear; title: Sun, rain, fire, me, you.