Since their breakthrough hit "Creep" in 1993, Radiohead has
continued to make waves throughout popular and political culture
with its views about the Bush presidency its 2003 album was titled
Hail to the Thief, its anti-corporatism, its pioneering efforts to
produce ecologically sound road tours, and, most of all, its
decision in 2007 to sell its latest album, In Rainbows, online with
a controversial "pay-what-you-want" price. Radiohead and Philosophy
offers fresh ways to appreciate the lyrics, music, and conceptual
ground of this highly innovative band. The chapters in this book
explain how Radiohead’s music connects directly to the
philosophical phenomenology of thinkers like Maurice Merleau-Ponty
and Martin Heidegger, the existentialism of Albert Camus and Jean
Paul Sartre, and the philosophical politics of Karl Marx, Jean
Baudrillard, and Noam Chomsky. Fans and critics know that Radiohead
is "the only band that matters" on the scene today — Radiohead and
Philosophy shows why.
關於作者:
Brandon Forbes is a freelance writer based. George Reisch is
the author of How the Cold War Transformed the Philosophy of
Science and editor of Pink Floyd and Philosophy, Monty Python and
Philosophy, and Bullshit and Philosophy. They both live in
Chicago.