Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.
Philosopher, music critic, and syndicated columnist Crispin Sartwell has forged a distinctive and fiercely original identity over the years as a cultural commentator. In books about anarchism, art and politics, Native American and African American thought and culture, Eastern spirituality, and American transcendentalism, Sartwell has relentlessly insisted on an ethos rooted in unadorned honesty with oneself and a healthy skepticism of others. This volume of selected popular writings combines music and art criticism with personal memoir about addiction and rebellion, as well as cultural commentary on race, sexuality, cynicism, and the meaning of life.
Table of Content
Preface
1. How to Escape, 2006
2. Divas, Dudes, Queens, and Studs: Gender and Sexuality as Aesthetic Expressions, 2013
3. Beatles vs. Stones: An Aesthetics of Rock Music, 2011
4. Reactionary Progressivism: Bluegrass and Political Philosophy, 2009
5. Philosophy of Punk, 2002
6. Technology and the Future of Beauty, 1998
7. I Speak for My People: A Racial Manifesto, 2013
8. I Was a Teenage Terrorist, 2005
9. Detritus, 2008
10. Tangled: What If Aesthetic Properties Were Real? 2009
11. Holding on for Dear Life: The Value of Realism in Art, 2012
12. Presence and Resistance: Process in Graffiti Art and Crime, 2002
13. Beauty, Sex, and the Banality of Pleasure, 2000
14. Guns, Dub, Technique, 2008
15. Cynicism: The Characteristically American Philosophy, 2013
16. ‘Don’t Mean Sheeit’: On the Necessity and Impossibility of Meaning for Life, 2010
Appendix: Art History Lexicon
Notes
About the author
Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of many books, including The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions; Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality; End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History; Extreme Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives; Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory; and How to Escape: Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism, all published by SUNY Press.
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