Heroes of the Day: Acknowledgments viii
Hit the Lights 1
DISC 1 On Through the Never 3
1 Whisper Things Into My Brain: Metallica, Emotion, and Morality
5
Robert Fudge
2 This Search Goes On: Christian, Warrior, Buddhist 16
William Irwin
3 Alcoholica: When Sweet Amber Becomes the Master of Puppets
29
Bart Engelen
4 Through the Mist and the Madness: Metallica’s Message of
Nonconformity, Individuality, and Truth 41
Thomas Nys
DISC 2 Existensica: Metallica Meets Existentialism 53
5 The Metal Militia and the Existentialist Club 55
J. Jeremy Wisnewski
6 The Struggle Within: Hetfield, Kierkegaard, and the Pursuit of
Authenticity 65
Philip Lindholm
7 Metallica, Nietzsche, and Marx: The Immorality of Morality
74
Peter S. Fosl
8 Metallica’s Existential Freedom: From We to I and Back Again
85
Rachael Sotos
DISC 3 Living and Dying, Laughing and Crying 99
9 To Live is to Die: Metallica and the Meaning of Life 101
Scott Calef
10 Madness in the Mirror of Reason: Metallica and Foucault on
Insanity and Confinement 117
Brian K. Cameron
11 Ride the Lightning: Why Not Execute Killers? 127
Thom Brooks
12 Living and Dying as One: Suffering and the Ethics of
Euthanasia 135
Jason T. Eberl
13 Fade to Black: Absurdity, Suicide, and the Downward Spiral
148
Justin Donhauser and Kimberly A. Blessing
DISC 4 Metaphysica, Epistemologica, Metallica 161
14 Believer, Deceiver: Metallica, Perception, and Reality
163
Robert Arp
15 Trapped in Myself: “One” and the Mind-Body Problem 173
Joanna Corwin
16 Is It Still Metallica? On the Identity of Rock Bands Over
Time 183
Manuel Bremer and Daniel Cohnitz
DISC 5 Fans and the Band 197
17 Metallica Drops a Load: What Do Bands and Fans Owe Each
Other? 199
Mark D. White
18 The Unsocial Sociability of Humans and Metal Gods 210
Niall Scott
19 Boys Interrupted: The Drama of Male Bonding in Some Kind of
Monster 219
Judith Grant
20 Justice for All? Metallica’s Argument Against Napster and
Internet File Sharing 232
Robert A. Delfino
Who’s Who in the Metal Militia 245
The Phantom Lord’s Index 250
William Irwin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Pennsylvania. He has edited Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing; The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer (with Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble); and Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction (with Gregory Bassham, H. Nardone, and J. Wallace). He is also the author of Intentionalist Interpretation: A Philosophical Explanation and Defense and editor of The Death and Resurrection of the Author.
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