{"id":1616,"date":"2019-06-20T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2019-06-24T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:02:51","slug":"the-beatles-and-philosophy-edited-by-michael-and-stephen-baur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles and Philosophy edited by Michael and Stephen Baur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0812696069.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This books in in the series, <em>Popular Culture and Philosophy<\/em> by Open Court. As with the others, it is a collection of essays by various philosophers on a variety of subjects and tied to subjects of pop culture, in this case,  <em>The\u00a0Beatles.<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book covers topics such as reality, social philosophy, moral philosophy, existentialism and a few others.  Each is tied to Beatles songs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I generally enjoy this series, I like how concepts of philosophy are tied to subjects we are familiar with, this helps grasp the concepts and to remember the lessons.  However, I felt this volume was weaker than the others.  The tie-ins sometimes felt contrived and different philosophers often found very different, and somewhat contradictory, messages in the same lyrics.  This does not aid learning the concepts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, I did enjoy the book.  Several of the essays were very good and enjoyable to read.  I think I&#8217;d recommend others in the series over this one.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This books in in the series, Popular Culture and Philosophy by Open Court. As with the others, it is a collection of essays by various philosophers on a variety of subjects and tied to subjects of pop culture, in this case, The\u00a0Beatles. This book covers topics such as reality, social philosophy, moral philosophy, existentialism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[121,129,130],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-philosophy","tag-popular-culture-and-philosophy","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}