The Philosophy of the Beats

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 Sharin N. Elkholy I. The Beats: Creating a Subculture The Philosophy and Non-Philosophy of Potato Salad 9 F. Scott Scribner Laugh of the Revolutionary: Diane di Prima, French Feminist Philosophy, and the Contemporary Cult of the Beat Heroine 19 Roseanne Giannini Quinn Beat U-topos or Taking Utopia on the Road: The Case of Jack Kerouac 33 Christopher Adamo Being-at-Home: Gary Snyder and the Poetics of Place 47 Josh Michael Hayes II. Beat Identities: Selfhood and Experimentation From Self-Alienation to Posthumanism: The Transmigration of the Burroughsian Subject 65 Micheal Sean Bolton “I am not an I”: Performative (Self)Identity in the Poetry of Bob Kaufman 79 Tom Pynn Tongues Untied: Beat Ethnicities, Beat Multiculture 97 A. Robert Lee Joanne Kyger “Descartes and the Splendor Of”: Bridging Dualisms through Collaboration and Experimentation 115 Jane Falk III. Beat Avant-Garde: Spontaneity and Immediacy John Clellon Holmes and Existentialism 133 Ann Charters Wholly Communion: Poetry, Philosophy, and Spontaneous Bop Cinema 147 David Sterritt High Off the Page: Representing the Drug Experience in the Work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg 163 Erik Mortenson GeniusAlltheTime:TheBeats,SpontaneousPresence,andPrimordialGround 179 Marc Olmsted Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Difference: Philosophy, Being in Time, and Creativity in the Aesthetics of Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, and John Cage 195 David Need IV. Beat Politics: Ethics and affinities Two Ways of Enduring the Flames: The Existential Dialectics of Love in Kierkegaard and Bukowski 213 Andreas Seland Anarchism and the Beats 227 Ed D’Angelo Between Social Ecology and Deep Ecology: Gary Snyder’s Ecological Philosophy 243 Paul Messersmith-Glavin William Burroughs as Philosopher: From Beat Morality to Third Worldism to Continental Theory 267 Jones Irwin List of Contributors 281 Index 287 ...