Leonard Cohen and Philosophy (41 page)

“A Thousand Kisses Deep,”
10–11

time in,
40
,
43–46
,
49
,
51

     
apocalyptic,
41–42

     
and beginnings,
47–48

     
and waiting,
43–45

“Tonight Will Be Fine,”
207

“Tower of Song,”
55
,
65–66
,
71
,
74
,
98–99
,
121
,
170
,
211

“The Traitor,”
114
,
116
,
206

transcendental approach of,
117–19
,
122

Various Positions
(album),
24
,
56
,
238
,
242
,
249

“Villanelle for Our Time,”
206
,
210

as vocal stylist,
57

voice quality of,
62–63

     
“Waiting for the Miracle,”
18
,
19
,
40
,
43–45
,
47

     
and war,
225

     
“Who by Fire,”
108
,
132–34
,
135
,
220

     
“Why Don’t You Try,”
209

     
“The Window,”
205
,
219
,
231
,
237

     
“Winter Lady,”
31

     
“Wishing Window,”
206

     
and women,
170
projections on,
129–30

     
“women, song, religion” in,
39
,
46

     
“You Do Not Have to Love Me,”
116

     
“You Have Loved Enough,”
206

     
“You Know Who I Am,”
235

Collins, Judy,
67

     
In My Life
,
127

consciousness,
198–99

     
and embodiment,
198

     
and teleology,
200

“conversational maxims,”
71

Crumb, Robert,
233

cultural evolution,
243

the Dæmonic,
83

Dante Alighieri,
233

“dark space” (Minkowski),
184

Darwin, Charles,
204

     
The Origin of Species
,
242–43

Davidson, Donald,
119

Dawkins, Richard,
245
,
252

     
The Selfish Gene
,
243

“dead letter,”
237–38

death, Epicurean view of,
11–12

death wish,
185

DeCurtis, Anthony,
62

“deep song,”
82
,
84

Deigh, John

     
“Primitive Emotions,”
207

Del Rey, Lana,
67

democracy/individual conflict,
4–5

Democritus,
11

De Mornay, Rebecca,
44
,
170
,
223

Dennett, Daniel,
245–48
,
251
,
252

     
Breaking the Spell
,
245

Derrida, Jacques,
49
,
125
,
134

Descartes, René,
125
,
193

de Sousa, Ronald,
212
,
214

     
The Rationality of Emotion
,
210

Dharma,
218

The Diary of Anne Frank

     
(play),
160

Dickens, Charles,
227

Dickinson, Emily,
168

Diefenbaker, John,
146

DiFranco, Ani,
x

Dionysian magic,
80

Dionysius the Areopagite,
236

     
Mystical Theology
,
234

Dionysus,
80
,
127

Disturbed

     
“Down with the Sickness,”
73

divided mind,
119

divine command ethics,
23

Donne, John,
89

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

     
The Brothers Karamazov
,
21

double positives, as negatives,
134

duck/rabbit drawing,
140

Dudek, Louis,
xii

duende
,
75–79
,
81
,
83–85

Dylan, Bob,
ix
,
27
,
36
,
39
,
58
,
60
,
78
,
249

     
“Highway
61
,”
22

Eastwood, Clint,
32

Eckermann, Johann Peter

     
Conversations with Goethe
,
83

Eichmann, Adolf,
160–62
,
164

eironeia
,
90

Elijah (biblical),
135

Eliot, T. S.,
132
,
139

     
Four Quartets
,
218

Elrod, Suzanne,
223
,
237

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
47

emotion

     
as body-based,
203
,
211–12

     
cognitive theories of,
207–14

     
embodied metaphors for,
205

     
as mind-based,
203–5
,
207

     
parallel systems of control in,
214

Empedocles,
123
,
126–28

Epictetus,
6

Epicureanism

     
on death,
11–12

     
on desires,
11

Epicurus,
11

episteme,
108

existentialism,
17
,
126

     
as humanism,
21

     
and individualism,
21–22

     
and relativism,
20–21

Ezekiel (biblical),
42

Faithfull, Marianne,
61–62
,
67

     
Vagabond Ways
,
61

Falla, Manuel de

     
Nocturno de Generalife
,
79

feminism,
29

flamenco music,
75
,
82

Footman, Tim,
130

Freud, Sigmund,
119
,
159

     
on dreams,
157

     
on pleasure,
185

friends, as mirrors,
109

Frost, Robert

     
“Fire and Ice,”
134

gala
,
46

game, as concept,
77–78

Gender Studies,
30
,
35

Genesis (biblical),
233

Genet, Jean,
239

Gnosticism,
48
,
221

Godot,
18

Goebbels, Joseph,
162

Goering, Hermann,
162

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
79
,
83

     
Faust
,
129

Grant, George,
151

     
Lament for a Nation
,
146

Grice, Paul,
71

Guantanamo Bay,
222

Hafferkamp, Jack,
170

Hamilton, Helen,
251

Harper, Stephen,
152

Hegel, G. W. F.,
107
,
123
,
134

Heidegger, Martin,
135
,
185
,
186

     
on death,
184

Helen of Troy,
114

Hellenistic philosophy,
3
,
6

     
end of
12–13

Heraclitus,
133
,
135

’hesed
,
223
,
228

high art/popular art distinction,
x–xi

Hitchcock, Alfred,
xi

Hitler, Adolf,
156
,
162
,
221

Holocaust,
155
,
221
,
226

     
repression of rediscovery of,
159–61

     
as symbol of evil,
162–63

Homer,
63

hubris
,
18

Hume, David,
58

     
on aesthetic judgment,
59
,
61

     
on taste,
63–64

Husserl, Edmund,
103
,
104

Hypatia,
12
,
13

Iago,
208

Ibn al-Arabi,
236

Ibn Gabirol,
234

I Ching
,
252

iconography, in Judeo-Christianity,
232–34

Ihlen, Marianne,
223

indexicals,
61

interpretations

     
and best readings,
140–41

     
and context,
70
,
72

intersubjective relations,
105

irony,
90–92
,
121

     
danger of,
99

     
and personality,
91–92

Isaac (biblical),
22
,
23

Isaiah (biblical),
42
,
46
,
176
,
217
,
233

Isis,
152

Isserman, Dominique,
223

James, William,
204

     
on fear,
204

James-Lange thesis,
204

Jensen, Marianne,
170

Jepsen, Carly Rae

     
“Call Me, Maybe,”
128
,
131

Jeremiah (biblical),
217

Jesus Christ,
174
,
219
,
220

Jewel,
ix

Jewish men, stereotypes of,
32–33

Jikan,
172
,
228

Joan of Arc,
13

John, Elton,
67

John the Apostle

     
Apocalypse,
42
,
50
(
see also
Book of Revelation
)

John the Baptist,
217–18

Jones, Tom,
61–62
,
67
,
70
,
73
,
74

     
Spirit in the Room
,
61

Joplin, Janis,
39
,
68
,
170

“joyful sorrow” (Christian mysticism),
25

Kabbalah,
221
,
231
,
234
,
236
,
238

Kafka, Franz,
182

Kagan, Rabbi Ruth Gan,
250–51