Bob Dylan

• Verfasst von: Green, Jeffrey E. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Bob Dylan
• Titelzusatz: prophet without God
• Verf.angabe: Jeffrey Edward Green
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765177-3
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197651742.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Music
• Sach-SW: Music
• K10plus-PPN: 1904981402
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Throughout his career, Bob Dylan has always been more than a musician. Whether as an icon of the social movements of the 1960s, a convert to evangelical Christianity publicly wrestling with his faith, or simply a poet of genius, Dylan has occupied a position of moral leadership for more than half a century. Examining these roles collectively, the award-winning political philosopher Jeffrey Edward Green offers a vision of Dylan as a modern-day prophet, providing an overarching account of the significance of Dylan's political, religious, and ethical ideas. Green suggests Dylan is not a prophet of salvation, but rather a 'prophet without God.' Dylan speaks to the ideals that have animated earlier prophets - social justice, individual freedom, and adherence to God - but breaks from past tradition by testifying to the conflicts between these ideals.

Abstract

"In the first book-length work on Bob Dylan from a philosophical perspective, Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God defends the idea of Dylan as a modern-day prophet, albeit one of an unusual, almost unprecedented type. Dylan speaks to the ideals that have animated earlier prophets-social justice, individual freedom, and adherence to God-but breaks from past tradition in continually insisting on the conflicts between these ideals, leading him to make novel and important contributions to the meaning of self-reliance, the quest for rapprochement between the religious and non-religious, and the question of how ordinary people might operate in a fallen political world. The book aspires to an overarching account of why Dylan fascinates, even as it also explains why Dylan will remain a mysterious and elusive figure. Green places Dylan into conversation with a wide array of historical and contemporary intellectual figures to highlight the originality and significance of Dylan's political, religious, and ethical ideas"--