The Philosophy of the Beats

Index

287 Index Adams, Joan Vollmer, 99 African American jazz. See jazz African Americans, 4, 80, 85–89, 105, 110, 229 Africans, 85, 88, 109 Afro-Beat, 101 “Alastor” (Shelley), 215, 216, 224 America, 42–42, 56, 79–80, 85–89, 90, 92, 98, 103–7, 111, 231, 239, 262, 270 American mainstream, 3 American myths, 102 American poetry, 5, 238, 268–69 anarchism, 56, 166, 232, 234, 236, 243–44, 246 anarchy, 140 anti-utopian. See utopia antiwar, 147 Appiah, Anthony, 103 Artaud, Antonin, 10–11, 13, 99, 153, 157, 237, 276–77 avant-garde, 238, 268 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 147–51 Bakunin, Michael, 232, 234 Baldwin, James, 85 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 85, 86, 109, 101, 283 Baudrillard, Jean, 66, 103 Beard, The (McClure), 102 Beat/beat, 1–2 Beat Museum (San Francisco), 20 beat values, 3, 148, 233, 248 Beauvoir, Simone de, 22, 79, 80, 85, 87, 89, 90, 92, 140 Bhabha, Homi, 103 bioregionalism, 259 black beat, 97, 101, 109 Blake, William, 83, 166, 183–87, 190, 228–29, 245 blues, the, 100, 109–11 body, the, 20, 24, 39, 66, 69, 72–75, 118, 125–26, 163–67 bohemianism/bohemians, 26, 81, 109– 10, 121, 125, 137, 153–57, 172–73, 176, 228, 230–33, 236–39, 269, 272, 276–77, 283 Bookchin, Murray, 251, 253–56, 258, 261 Buddhism, 29, 34, 43, 48–51, 54, 90–94, 105, 116, 143, 179–89, 199, 243–52, 261–63, 282–84 Bukowski, Charles, 213–14, 218–22, 224–25 Burroughs, William S., 65, 69, 70–76, 99, 112, 134, 149, 182–87, 271–77 Butler, Judith, 121, 126 Cage, John, 102, 155, 196, 204–7 Camus, Albert, 133, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144, 270 Carr, Lucien, 229 Cartesian dualism, 115, 116, 118, 121, 123, 207; non-dualism, 251 Cassady, Neal, 9, 98, 99, 139, 169–72, 198, 200, 229 288 Index Catholicism, 89, 143, 182, 197 Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, 99, 180, 187 Chuang Tzu, 120 civil rights, 25, 104 Cixous, Hélène, 19–28, 277 Cold War, 93, 98, 134 collaboration, 3, 86, 148 Coltrane, John, 100, 110 communism/communists, 136, 137, 234–39 community, 21, 23, 29, 35, 38, 42, 48, 57, 80, 91, 232–37, 250–59, 269, 282 Confucianism, 120, 248 contestation, 9–15 Cooraswamy, Ananda, 204 Corso, Gregory, 11, 48, 98, 99, 101, 106, 107, 109, 112, 147, 149, 151, 182, 268 counterculture, 97, 108, 150, 187, 231, 233, 239, 269–72 criminality, 4, 40, 163, 229, 230, 231 Culture of Spontaneity, The (Belgrad), 166. See also spontaneity Dadaism, 9 Davis, Miles, 106, 109 de Beauvoir, Simone, 22, 79, 80, 85, 87, 89, 90, 92, 140 deep ecology, 49, 243–48, 251–58, 261–65 defiance, 10, 123, 184 Deleuze, Gilles, 148, 150–60, 174–77, 279 Derrida, Jacques, 13–15, 20, 21, 66, 68, 70–73, 89, 276, 277, 283 Descartes, Rene, 13, 113–19, 121–29, 207 “Descartes and the Splendor of” (Kyger), 119, 120 Dharma Bums, The (Kerouac), 38, 39, 43, 49, 50, 91, 100, 106, 186, 187, 243 di Prima, Diane, 19–29, 97, 100–107, 182, 184, 187, 235, 283 Discourse on Method (Descartes), 115, 118–22 Dōgen, 51, 59, 246, 248, 250 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 38, 134, 138, 142, 146 doubling, 15, 197 drugs, 10, 98, 99, 108, 110, 151, 163– 68, 213, 227 Earth First! movement, 244, 251, 254, 284 ecology, 25, 49, 50, 59, 244–48, 251– 59, 261–62 écriture féminine, 23, 24, 28 Eliot, T. S., 73, 93, 195, 196, 199, 202, 206, 208 embodiment, 24, 80, 276, 277 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 49, 214, 215, 217 empathy, 172, 179 essentialism, 82 ethnicity, 29, 97, 101, 111; postethnicity , 103 existentialism/existentialist, 133–44, 270 experimental video, 117 feminism, 22, 100, 104, 121, 123; French, 20–22 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 98, 101, 106, 107, 111, 147, 149, 151, 229 film, 71, 125, 148, 149, 159 gender, 24–26, 121, 126 generation, 3, 5, 11, 25, 38, 47–50, 52, 101, 134, 139, 170, 230, 227, 238, 252 Ginsberg, Allen, 3, 5, 9–15, 22, 28, 48, Index 289 49, 79, 84, 86, 91, 93, 97–109, 111, 125, 134, 138, 144, 147, 149–59, 165, 166, 172–77, 180–91, 197, 208, 214, 225–33, 237, 239–40, 243, 268, 269, 284 global capitalism, 57 global war, 141 Godard, Jean-Luc, 159 Greens, the, 253, 282 Greenwich Village, 104–5, 230...