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Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind (Paperback)
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Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind (Paperback)
Series: Pop Culture and Philosophy
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Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection
of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen,
founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie
Mercury. Queen's reputation and fan following continue to grow in
the twenty-first century. These insightful and provocative chapters
include: uncover the origins of Queen's unique style in prog rock,
vulgarity, and lower versus higher Romanticism examine Queen's view
of love, friendship, and erotic relationships draw upon three
timeless Queen songs, "We Will Rock You," "We Are the Champions,"
and "Don't Stop Me Now" and Socrates's behavior in the Apology, to
understand the "rocking" nature of philosophy identify the
connections between ancient matriarchal religion and Queen's love
for strong female imagery explore how Brian May's astrophysics
brings to bear the issues of absolute versus relative spacetime and
how the philosophies of Newton, Mach, and Einstein contribute to
Queen's creative output analyze the structure of Queen's sound to
answer the inevitable question, How can four people make all that
music? expose what Queen's songs tell us about the contemporary
theory of mental illness and therapy scrutinize Roger Taylor's
stark impressions of ordinary life and death, and their alignment
to the cynical musings of Diogenes of Sinope and Seneca's blunt
observations on the shortness of life look at the movie Highlander
through the music of Queen and reveal how both song and cinema
convey the philosophy of bushido, the soul of the samurai
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