Call for Abstracts: LC and Philosophy

[jarkko]

http://www.popularcultureandphilosophy.com/?p=487
Thanks to Goldin for finding this!

Leonard Cohen and Philosophy: Everybody Knows
Edited by Jason Holt, jason.holt@acadiau.ca
Submit abstracts of 100-300 words, along with CV’s, to jason.holt@acadiau.ca
Abstracts due: August 15, 2013
Notification of accepted abstracts: September 1, 2013
First drafts of papers due: December 15, 2013
3000-4000 word philosophy papers written in an accessible, engaging style for a general readership
Possible topics include, but need not be limited to, the following:

The existential Cohen
Clinical Cohen: a philosophy of despair
Themes of silence and darkness in Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen and the meaning of life
The singer-songwriter as philosopher (Cohen vs. Dylan)
Poetry vs. song (high and popular art): the Cohen case
Realism vs. romanticism in Leonard Cohen
“A sip of wine, a cigarette…”: the Cohen aesthetic
Leonard Cohen and the limits of irony
Soundtrack aesthetics: Cohen on film
Cohen’s religious eroticism
Cohen’s philosophy of love
Touching perfect bodies: mind in Cohen’s metaphysics
The new age/hippie Cohen: philosophy and freedom
The Buddhist Cohen
Cohen’s “Judeo-Christianity”
Cohen and biblical interpretation
The politics of Leonard Cohen
Feminist positions on Leonard Cohen
(Inter)national Cohen: does being Canadian matter?

[lizzytysh]

WoW!!!

Come on all you insightful and great writers! So much to sink your perception and writing skills into!
Will be VERY excited to read the final product.

UKSylvie... would be great to see you expound on some of these, too.

GREAT find, Goldin!!!!!

[HelenOE]

I think I found this before, but they've put back the date for receipt of abstracts. IIRC, it used to be June 1.

[John Etherington]

I probably won't get time, but if I do I might write a paper on "Preserving the mystery of Leonard Cohen versus total over-analysation of the man and his work"!

[HelenOE]

Remember to put in lots of footnotes, John.

Actually, I think Leonard Cohen does a GREAT job of preserving the mystery of Leonard Cohen. We're just all spinning our wheels.

[lizzytysh]

Hahah... go for it, John! No one will ever be able to deprive him of his mystery, anyway. They'll just think that they have.

[lizzytysh]

Ha. [And Helen agrees with me . And I agree with Helen .]

[Paul Zagreb]

and a whole book on a related (if well worn) theme - http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?cal ... n_id=12379

[Tchocolatl]

For the BD vs LC I copy this article I just read and put in the "Comment and Question" section :

http://www.edlis.org/twice/threads/leonard_cohen.html

It is old but interesting. Check the typos, though... ex.:

The age of lust is giving birth
And both the parents ask the nurse
On both sides of the glass
Now the infant with his cord
Is hauled in like a kite
And one eye filled with blueprints
One eye filled with night.


A line was skipped.
But I copy the whole thing because I like it.

The stories of the street are mine,the Spanish voices laugh.
The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas,
and I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose,
yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose.
I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come,
the cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone.
But let me ask you one more time, O children of the dusk,
All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?

And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?
Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me?
O lady with your legs so fine O stranger at your wheel,
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask
the nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass.
And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite,
and one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night.

O come with me my little one, we will find that farm
and grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm.
And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am,
O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb.

With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl
I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world.
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky,
and lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye.



Generally, Bob Dylan is a Monster of Social Consciousness. The Triangle that points below.

Leonard Cohen is a Monster of Love. The Triangle that points above.

Both are two creative genius so they can never lose their mystery.

[Tchocolatl]

Of course. Geniuses. Thanks.