Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm
Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-781246-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press
She's much more than a showgirl. Taylor Swift has long been celebrated as a masterful storyteller, but her songwriting is also full of deep philosophical reflection. Hidden beneath the gleaming surfaces of cliffside pools and the shattered edges of mirror balls are philosophical insights for the ages. It's easy to get lost in the labyrinth of her lyrics, but our philosophical guides are here to take you by the hand and lead you through the secret philosophical gardens in Swift's mind. It's worth it. As she tells us, she's only cryptic and Machiavellian because she cares.
The Philosophy of Taylor Swift gathers twenty-two original essays that illuminate the philosophical richness of Swift's catalogue. Written by philosophers with various areas of expertise--including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of science--and bringing to bear the passion of a fan for an obsessive deep-dive into Swift's music and lyrics, this book of friendly but rigorous essays treats Swift not merely as a pop icon but as a serious intellectual interlocutor. Contributors use philosophy's unique toolkit to analyze her songwriting, showing that she can play ball with Aristotle and that her words are worth much more than meets the cynical eye.
For philosophers, the volume offers a methodologically innovative approach to popular culture, demonstrating how an artist's lyrics can sustain substantive philosophical inquiry. For Swifties, it offers new lenses through which to understand the themes that animate Swift's music: accountability and forgiveness, ambition and vulnerability, moral injury and revenge, love in its many registers, and the search for meaning in a complicated world.
The result is a vibrant, interdisciplinary exploration of one of the most distinctive and thought-provoking voices of the twenty-first century.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- Part I. Introduction
- Introduction: Straight from the Tortured Philosophers Department
- Methods in Reading: 13 Tools for Swiftian Exegesis
- Part II. Magic
- 1: John Dyck: Tim McGraw
- 2: Emily Hulme: A Literally Cathartic Reading of "All Too Well"
- 3: Hannah Jung: Karma Is Real: Swifties and the Hermeneutics of Clowning
- 4: Marilynn Johnson and Sydney Rios Bruner: Adorning Bodies in Taylor Swift's Lyrics and Persona: From Girlhood to Womanhood
- 5: Angela Sun: Eras
- Part III. Madness
- 6: Ryan W. Davis: The Mastermind's Problem of Self-Knowledge
- 7: Lindsay Brainard: Do Champagne Problems Have Rational Solutions?
- 8: Keshav Singh: Should Love Make Us Crazy?
- 9: Jeremy Fried: We Could Be GLAAD: Considering "You Need to Calm Down"
- 10: Lindsay Brainard: How Could It Possibly End?
- Part Four. Heaven
- 11: Kayla Bohannon: Why Go Back to December?: Dimensions of Nostalgia in Taylor Swift's Discography
- 12: Ryan W. Davis: Dorothea and the Sameness of Souls
- 13: Jessica Flanigan: Boss Up/Bake Bread
- 14: Justin F. White: How to Root for the Anti-Hero: Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Existentially Situated Aspiration
- 15: Jordan MacKenzie: Something Old and Something New: Falling in Love with Taylor Swift's "Lover"
- 16: Agnes Callard: What Do You Want When You Want to Be Wanted?
- Part Five. Sin
- 17: Mikayla Kelley: Can Thoughts Make Us Guilty as Sin?
- 18: Ian Cruise: Taylor Swift and the Revenge Fantasy
- 19: Brynn F. Welch: Personal Transformation and Accidentally Unforgivable Harms
- 20: Luke Russell: Taylor Swift Will Never Ever Forgive You
- 21: Katharina Paxman: "Look What You Made Me Do": Taylor Swift on theSocially Constituted Self
