Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Reviewed in Metal Hammer



Well, fellow Metallica fans, the book is now out and I await my gratis copy and looking forward to it. The book is on Amazon here: UK, US.

This is probably the only project I've been involved in where it has been reviewed in Metal Hammer magazine (and getting 7 of 10 stars, no less). They said:

"An entire Pseud's Corner waiting to happen? "What can Descartes and 'One' tell us about the relationship between the mind and the body?" What indeed? This collection of essays links Metallica's ideas with philosophers from Aristotle to Foucault, engaging with the big ideas of the past 2,500 years. Intellectual snobs and proud low-brows alike may dismiss this as a joke - though obviously not respected academic publishers Blackwell - and indeed some of the connections between Hetfield and Camus on the problem of suicide, for example, seem a tad tenuous. But then as an introduction to some of the major schools of thought it is no less worthy than popular books like Sophie's World that have also sought to bring philosophy to the mass market." (review by Tommy Udo)

If only Metal Hammer cared about books on Hegel.....

2 comments:

meditations71 said...

Thom 'Ride the Lightning' Brooks!

The Brooks Blog said...

My favourite tune on the album, too!