From Willie Nelson To Wittgenstein

The Philosophy of Country Music

De: Tom McBride

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Every lover of WESTERN philosophy knows the greats: Plato, Voltaire, Wittgenstein, and so on. And every lover of country WESTERN music likewise knows the great ones: Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, George Jones, Conway Twitty, etc. Now, for the first time, they’re all together in this original book. Tammy Wynette stops standing by her man long enough to have a drink wioth Jean-Paul Sartre, and they have a riveting discussion about freedom of choice and how the subject is explored in her songs. We’ll consider how Socrates might advise Johnny Paycheck and how George Jones puts down his bottle of white lightning to show what David Hume means by the folly of making assumptions. Charley Pride kisses an angel good morning, but Nietzsche says the real business is loving her like the devil when you get back home. Skeeter Davis has a fine visit with Voltaire about the end of the world. In these eighteen chapters we’ll move from Mart, Texas, to Paris, France; from ancient Athens to Luckenbach, Texas; from Bakersfield, California to hideouts in mountainous Switzerland. All of it proves that country music and philosophy are both about the puzzling pain of human living and can light up one another when you put them in the same room. Country music is three chords and the truth. Philosophy is a set of keys, one of which, every now and then, opens the door to a shocking truth about where we are, and why. Country and philosophy: they both sing about life.