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 of diremption." 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. By examining Dylan's work across his
career, Green shows how the humble folk singer from Minnesota who went
on to win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has made novel
contributions to the meaning of self-reliance, the quest for
rapprochement between the religious and non-religious, and the problem
of how ordinary people might operate in a fallen political world.
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Prophet Without God
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ISBN
9780197651766
Publisert
2024
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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