Chuck Klosterman and Philosophy

Posted on 08 September 2017 by Seth Vannatta

Since he burst on the world with his heavy metal memoir Fargo Rock City in 2001, Chuck Klosterman has been one of the most successful novelists and essayists in America His collections of essays Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas have established Klosterman not only as a credible spokesman for intelligent purveyors of popular culture His writings and regular columns in Spin, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine and other venues about music, sports, and modern culture have sometimes become themselves touchstones in popular culture The success of his card based game Hypertheticals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations has demonstrated that Klosterman can connect with his fans and readers even off the printed page.As he writes in his contribution to this book, Klosterman enjoys writing about big, unwieldy ideas as they circulate in culture, in people, in music, and in sports The twenty two other philosophers writing alongside Klosterman couldn t agree They offer their own take on the concepts and puzzles that fascinate him and take up many of Chuck s various challenges to answer brain twisting hypertheticals or classic ethical quandaries that would arise if, say, Aristotle wandered backstage at a Kiss concert. Free Read Chuck Klosterman and Philosophy author Seth Vannatta For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The whatever and philosophy being the only philosophy books that seem to be at the local bookstore, I have seen them many times and always assumed they were silly or the whatever never interested me enough to care to read one But I received this one and greatly en...As Klosterman predicted in the epilogue to this book, I bought this pretty much only because it had my favorite author s name on it, despite it actually being about something I care very little for, namely heavy philosophy of mind There were enough interesting insights in it to make it worthwhile the brilliant response to the dream tv hyperthetical, the amusing idea of tribute bands being four levels removed from true form in Plato s canon , but mostly it was just a variety of modern day philo As Klosterman predicted in the epilogue to this book, I bought this pretty much only because it had m...This book is both a complete bastardization of philosophy and a strange worshipping of Chuck Klosterman who, despite being one of the preeminent pop culture critics of our time, does not deserve this kind of star treatment which he fully acknowledges in the epilogue, the only part of the book that he wrote The connections that the essayists make between the philosophical theories and Chuck s earlier writing are tangen...I still don t know how I got this book but I m glad I did Two things do NOT start this before you read Downtown Owl It doesn t matter whether or not you ve read the nonfics as long as you ve listened to a lot of music know who John Cusack is and have some interest in the concept of un irony But Owl is a novel best appreciated without the enthusiastic spoilers included in one of the early essays Some of the philosophy is technical and above my head, but there s a lot of good lines am I still don t know how I got this book but I m glad I did Two things do NOT start this before you read Downtown Owl It doesn t matter whether or not you ve read the nonfics as long as you ve listened to a lot of music know who John Cusack is and have some interest in the concept of un irony But Owl is a novel best appreciated without the enthusiastic spoilers included in one of the early essays Some of the philosophy is technical and abov...Rather than wrestling with the philosophical issues in Klosterman s books, these essays either attempt to reconstruct Klosterman s arguments into something new, or they simply used his work as a springboard to drop ph...Very insightful read, especially the essay about Media Ecology

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08 September 2017

Seth Vannatta