Blues - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking Deep About Feeling Low

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Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University, and The Nanoethics Group, USA) Jesse R. Steinberg (University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA)

Blues - Philosophy for Everyone

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Thinking Deep About Feeling Low

Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University, and The Nanoethics Group, USA), Jesse R. Steinberg (University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, USA), Abrol Fairweather (University of San Francisco, CA, USA) , Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records, Chicago, USA)

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Wiley
19 December 2011

Blues; Philosophy; Popular philosophy

Series: Philosophy for Everyone

The philosophy of the blues

From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only sounds good, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflection of the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Its ability to powerfully touch on a range of social and emotional issues is philosophically inspiring, and here, a diverse range of thinkers and musicians offer illuminating essays that make important connections between the human condition and the Blues that will appeal to music lovers and philosophers alike.

Foreword by: Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records Chicago USA)
Edited by: Jesse R. Steinberg (University of Pittsburgh at Bradford USA), Abrol Fairweather (University of San Francisco, CA, USA)
Series edited by: Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University and The Nanoethics Group USA)
Imprint: Wiley
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9780470656808
ISBN 10: 0470656808
Series: Philosophy for Everyone
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 19 December 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jesse R. Steinberg is currently an Assistant Professor of philosophy and the Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. He has been a visiting professor at Victoria University in New Zealand, at the University of California at Riverside, and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published a number of articles on topics including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics. Abrol Fairweather is an Instructor at San Francisco State University. He has published in the area of Virtue Epistemology and sustains interests in philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of language. He has contributed to a popular culture volumes on Facebook and Dexter. The guitar, vocals and lyrics of Lightnin' Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt are major influences.

Reviews for Blues - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking Deep About Feeling Low

Blues - Philosophy for Everyone provides illuminating essays from this philosophy of the blues. It brings together intriguing insights into the connection between the blues and philosophy that will appeal to music lovers and philosophers alike. (SirReadaLot.org, 1 February 2012) Blues? Philosophy? Ludwig Wittgenstein as the Hoochie Koochie man? Why not? There's a crossover: blues and philosophy both exist to make sense of it all, to find meaning in the vicissitudes of living. Leading the fly out of the fly bottle doesn't have to end up as a treatise, it can also end up as a song. As this book forms one the Philosophy for Everyone series, with titles such as Cannabis -- What Were We Just Talking About? or Dating -- Flirting With Big Ideas, we know that it is not going to be too po-faced in its approach to putting this popular art form under the philosophical lens. And if the other books in this series are as good as this one, then I'll be searching them out, too ... The writing here is of a high order and the essays yield insights galore about the blues in its social, historical and cultural contexts and its personal and universal appeal. (Metapsychology Online Reviews, 27 April 2012)