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Author Critchley, Simon, 1960- author.

Title Bowie / Critchley
Published New York : OR Books, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations
Contents My first sexual experience -- Episodic blips -- The art's filthy lesson -- Wonderful -- I am a Heideggerian bore -- Utopian something -- A seer is a liar -- Hold on to nothing -- Hamlet in space -- Dystopia ... Get it here, thing -- Les tricoteuses -- The majesty of the absurd -- Illusion to illusion -- Discipline -- Disappearance -- Yearning -- You say you'll leave me -- Giving up on reality -- Playing on God's grave -- Nothing to fear -- Sun, rain, fire, me, you
Summary Critchley, whose writings on philosophy have garnered widespread praise, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his dull life in southern England's suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and identity are turned inside out in Bowie's work
Notes Print version record
Subject Bowie, David -- Criticism and interpretation
Critchley, Simon, 1960-
SUBJECT Bowie, David. fast (OCoLC)fst00079977
Critchley, Simon, 1960- fast (OCoLC)fst01947364
Bowie, David 1947-2016 gnd
Subject Music and philosophy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Music and philosophy.
Musikphilosophie
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781939293558
1939293553