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Leonard Cohen and Philosophy

Jason Holt
Leonard Cohen and Philosophy Book PDF

Author : Jason Holt
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812698824

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From the early years, when he morphed from celebrated poet to provocative singer-songwriter, to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Leonard Cohen has endured as one of the most enigmatic and profound figures—with a uniquely compelling voice and unparalleled depth of artistic vision—in all of popular music. The aesthetic quality and intellectual merit of Cohen’s work are above dispute; here, for the first time, a team of philosophers takes an in-depth look at its real significance. Want to know what Cohen and Kierkegaard have in common? Or whether Cohen rivals the great philosophical pessimist Schopenhauer? Then this book is for you. It provides the first thorough analysis of Cohen from various (philosophical) positions. It is intended not only for Cohen fans but also undergraduates in philosophy and other areas. It explores important neglected aspects of Cohen’s work without attempting to reduce them to academic tropes, yet nonetheless will also be useful to academics—or anyone—beguiled by the enigma that is Leonard Cohen.

The Hallelujah Effect

Dr Babette Babich
The Hallelujah Effect Book PDF

Author : Dr Babette Babich
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409473107

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The Hallelujah Effect by Dr Babette Babich Pdf

This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah, embody acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today, the working of music is magnified and transformed by recording dynamics and mediated via Facebook exchanges, blog postings and video sites. Given the sexual/religious core of Cohen's Hallelujah, this study poses a phenomenological reading of the objectification of both men and women, raising the question of desire, including gender issues and both homosexual and heterosexual desire. A review of critical thinking about musical performance as 'currency' and consumed commodity takes up Adorno's reading of Benjamin's analysis of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction as applied to music/radio/sound and the persistent role of 'recording consciousness'. Ultimately, the question of what Nietzsche called the becoming-human-of-dissonance is explored in terms of both ancient tragedy and Beethoven's striking deployment of dissonance as Nietzsche analyses both as playing with suffering, discontent, and pain itself, a playing for the sake not of language or sense but musically, as joy.

The Art of Stillness

Pico Iyer
The Art of Stillness Book PDF

Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781476784724

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The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer Pdf

"In The Art of Stillness, Iyer draws on the lives of well-known wanderer-monks like Cohen--as well as from his own experiences as a travel writer who chooses to spend most of his time in rural Japan--to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. Iyer reflects that this is perhaps the reason why many people--even those with no religious commitment--seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or tai chi. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age."--Publisher's description.

Philosophy, Politics, Democracy

Joshua Cohen
Philosophy Politics Democracy Book PDF

Author : Joshua Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674034481

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Philosophy, Politics, Democracy by Joshua Cohen Pdf

Over the past 20 years, Joshua Cohen has explored the most controversial issues facing the American public. This volume draws on his work to develop an argument about what he calls 'democracy's public reason'.

Various Positions

Ira B. Nadel
Various Positions Book PDF

Author : Ira B. Nadel
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307367020

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Various Positions by Ira B. Nadel Pdf

Reissued with a new afterword Leonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing, flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson’s acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, in theatres this summer (the DVD will release this fall); and the superb soundtrack in music stores everywhere, Leonard Cohen proves he is Canada’s most enduring icon. Now, in the newly reissued Various Positions, Ira Nadel peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Leonard Cohen’s life and his art. This book is a remarkable and rare look at Leonard Cohen, up close and personal. For nearly forty years, Leonard Cohen has endured the ups and downs of an international career that has alternately identified him as the "Prince of Bummers" and Canada's most respected poet and performer. Now, author Ira Nadel brings us closer to understanding these conflicting descriptions and allows us to enter Cohen's private world. He peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Cohen's life and his art. This is a remarkable and rare look at Leonard Cohen, up close and personal.

A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen

Liel Leibovitz
A Broken Hallelujah Rock and Roll Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen Book PDF

Author : Liel Leibovitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393082050

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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen by Liel Leibovitz Pdf

A look not only at the inner man but also at the environments that shaped Leonard Cohen, from the rock scene of New York in the 1960s to the remote Zen monastery where Cohen spent years later in life.

Finding Oneself in the Other

G. A. Cohen
Finding Oneself in the Other Book PDF

Author : G. A. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691148816

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Finding Oneself in the Other by G. A. Cohen Pdf

This is the second of three volumes of posthumously collected writings of G. A. Cohen, who was one of the leading, and most progressive, figures in contemporary political philosophy. This volume brings together some of Cohen's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays, many of them previously unpublished. Rich in first-person narration, insight, and humor, these pieces vividly demonstrate why Thomas Nagel described Cohen as a "wonderful raconteur.? The nonphilosophical highlight of the book is Cohen's remarkable account of his first trip to India, which includes unforgettable vignettes of encounters with strangers and reflections on poverty and begging. Other biographical pieces include his valedictory lecture at Oxford, in which he describes his philosophical development and offers his impressions of other philosophers, and "Isaiah's Marx, and Mine," a tribute to his mentor Isaiah Berlin. Other essays address such topics as the truth in "small-c conservatism," who can and can't condemn terrorists, and the essence of bullshit. A recurring theme is finding completion in relation to the world of other human beings. Engaging, perceptive, and empathetic, these writings reveal a more personal side of one of the most influential philosophers of our time.

Book of Longing

Leonard Cohen
Book of Longing Book PDF

Author : Leonard Cohen
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781551991580

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Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen Pdf

Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Book of Longing contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen’s artistry with language worldwide recognition.

Tangle of Matter & Ghost

Aubrey L. Glazer
Tangle of Matter Ghost Book PDF

Author : Aubrey L. Glazer
Publisher : New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1618115499

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Tangle of Matter & Ghost by Aubrey L. Glazer Pdf

A sophisticated but accessible fusion of theory and critical popular culture of Leonard Cohen's mystical songbook in relation to post-secular thinking and Kabbalah, Hasidism and Rinzai Buddhism. This volume presents a unique inter-disciplinary approach to Jewish philosophy and literary studies that will touch diverse audiences and readership.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen

David Boucher,Lucy Boucher
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen Book PDF

Author : David Boucher,Lucy Boucher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501345678

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Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen by David Boucher,Lucy Boucher Pdf

Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The authors argue that both Dylan and Cohen shared early aspirations that mirrored the Beat Generation. They sought to achieve the fame of Dylan Thomas, who proved a bohemian poet could thrive outside the academy, and to live his life of unconditional social irresponsibility. While Dylan's and Cohen's fame fluctuated over the decades, it was sustained by self-consciously adopted personas used to distance themselves from their public selves. This separation of self requires an exploration of the artists' relation to religion as an avenue to find and preserve inner identity. The relationship between their lyrics and poetry is explored in the context of Federico García Lorca's concept of the poetry of inspiration and the emotional depths of 'duende.' Such ideas draw upon the dislocation of the mind and the liberation of the senses that so struck Dylan and Cohen when they first read the poetry and letters of Arthur Rimbaud and Lorca. The authors show that performance and the poetry are integral, and the 'duende,' or passion, of the delivery, is inseparable from the lyric or poetry, and common to Dylan, Cohen and the Beat Generation.

Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour

Jiří Měsíc
Leonard Cohen the Modern Troubadour Book PDF

Author : Jiří Měsíc
Publisher : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9788024457871

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Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour by Jiří Měsíc Pdf

This monograph arose from thinking about the literary tradition as described by the Anglo-American modernist writers Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. In their view, the tradition of European love-lyrics crystallized in the work of the medieval Occitan troubadours, who represented the cultural and political milieu of the Occitanie of that period and whose work reflected the religious influences of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The main subject of their poetry was the worship of a divinized feminine character resembling the Virgin Mary, the Gnostic Sophia, or the ancient Mother Goddess. Their literary preoccupations further flourished in Tuscany, as well as among the German Minnesängers, and at the court of the Sicilian King Frederick II (1194–1250), from where they infiltrated into English literature during the Renaissance. In this period, Classical literature, in combination with troubadour poetry, became the cornerstone of English artistic production. However, it is not so well known that troubadour poetry took as its model the medieval poetry written in Andalusian Arabic. This enigmatic essence is what makes this literature so relevant as it is the first instance of the synthesizing of religions, mythologies, philosophies, literatures, symbols, and motifs coming from cultures other than our own. Nowadays, it is not surprising that contemporary artists draw on the troubadour poets and that they are even contrasted with them by critics. Such is the case of Leonard Cohen, who, during his career, revealed erudition in medieval poetry and religion and whose work shows many parallels with the work of his Occitan and Andalusian predecessors. For this reason, the book presents a comparison of the texts and motifs present in their works and refers to another important facet of their œuvre: religion and mysticism. The purpose is to highlight the importance of troubadour poetry in the rise of popular culture in the second half of the 20th century.

Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers Book PDF

Author : Leonard Cohen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007341481

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Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen Pdf

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.

The Holy Or the Broken

Alan Light
The Holy Or the Broken Book PDF

Author : Alan Light
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781982141363

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The Holy Or the Broken by Alan Light Pdf

Acclaimed music journalist Alan Light follows the improbable journey of Cohen's "Hallelujah" straight to the heart of popular culture and gives insight into how great songs come to be, how they come to be listened to, and how they can be forever reinterpreted.

Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen

Jeff Burger
Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen Book PDF

Author : Jeff Burger
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613747612

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Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen by Jeff Burger Pdf

Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2012. In Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen—which includes a foreword by singer Suzanne Vega and eight pages of rarely seen photos—the artist talks about “Bird on the Wire,” “Hallelujah,” and his other classic songs. He candidly discusses his famous romances, his years in a Zen monastery, his ill-fated collaboration with producer Phil Spector, his long battle with depression, and much more. You'll find interviews that first appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stone, but also material that has not previously been printed in English. A few have not been available until now in any format, including many illuminating reminiscences that contributors supplied specifically for this definitive anthology.

Consciousness Speaks

Ramesh S. Balsekar,Wayne Liquorman
Consciousness Speaks Book PDF

Author : Ramesh S. Balsekar,Wayne Liquorman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0929448146

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Consciousness Speaks by Ramesh S. Balsekar,Wayne Liquorman Pdf

A worthy successor to I AM THAT Ramesh's most accessible and easy to understand book. An excellent place to start or end your search. It is highly recommended both for the newcomer to Advaita and the more knowledgeable student of the subject.