Leonard Cohen and Philosophy, CFA
Posted on | June 7, 2013
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?
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