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The Who and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Rocco J. Gennaro, Casey Harison; Contributions by Scott Calef, Dan Dinello, Don Fallis, …
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R2,803
Discovery Miles 28 030
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The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s
British Invasion bands-memorable because of their loudness and
because they destroyed instruments during performances, and
influential because of their success in crafting "Power Pop"
singles like "My Generation" and "I Can See for Miles,"
long-playing albums Live at Leeds and Who's Next, and the "rock
operas" Tommy and Quadrophenia. The themes that principal
songwriter Pete Townshend imparted into The Who's music drew upon
the group's mostly working-class London upbringings and early Mod
audiences: frustration, angst, irony, and a youthful inclination to
lash out. Like some of his rock and roll contemporaries, Townshend
was also affected by religious ideas coming from India and the
existential dread he felt about the possibility of nuclear war.
During a career that spanned three decades, The Who gave their fans
and rock critics a lot to think about. The remarkable depth and
breadth of The Who's music and their story as one of the most
exciting and provocative rock bands over the last half-century are
the subjects of the philosophical explorations in this collection.
"A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of
our time." -Outside A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging
over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea
for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of
the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of
grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an
American commons, and it is under assault as never before.
Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence
of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this
region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a
journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is
killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the
environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands
livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal
land management agencies, who have been compromised by the
profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to
regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt
politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's
failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species
Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly
bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior
of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of
animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way,
Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former
government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists
and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain
for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking
journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot
in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our
national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of
ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled,
denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws
already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native
species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered
Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where
there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.
Can we discover morality in nature? Flowers and Honeybees extends
the considerable scientific knowledge of flowers and honeybees
through a philosophical discussion of the origins of morality in
nature. Flowering plants and honeybees form a social group where
each requires the other. They do not intentionally harm each other,
both reason, and they do not compete for commonly required
resources. They also could not be more different. Flowering plants
are rooted in the ground and have no brains. Mobile honeybees can
communicate the location of flower resources to other workers. We
can learn from a million-year-old social relationship how morality
can be constructed and maintained over time.
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