Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind: Pop Culture and Philosophy

Introduction
Part I: My Fairy Kings
1. Side White: Worshiping the White Queen (As it Began)
Jared Kemling
2. Side Black: Master Stroke of a Fairy Feller
Jared Kemling
3. Queen, Prog, and Vulgar Romanticism
Jan Olof Bengtsson
Part II: A Night at the Concert
4. Be Free with Your Tempo: Freedom, Individuality, and Nonconformity in Innuendo

Douglas Rasmussen
5. Let Me Entertain You: Performance as a Tour de Force (Of Course)
Julie Kuhlken
6. Freddie’s Left Hand: Queen and the Order of Music
Randall E. Auxier
Part III: The Show Must Go On
7. Is Adam Lambert a Killer of Queen, or Somebody to Love?
Megan Volpert
8. Instrumental Instrumentalism: Is Red Special a Member of Queen?
Steven Gimbel
Part IV: Made in the Heavens
9. Hot Spacetime

Kristina Šekrst
10. Tie the Cosmos Down: Brian May’s Astrophysics and Music
Randall E. Auxier
Part V: I’m Going Slightly Mad
11. Stone Cold Crazy: Queen, Mental Disorder, and Suffering
Snita Ahir-Knight
12. Hitting Rock Bottom
Robert S. Vuckovich
Part VI: Sheer Head Attack
13. Hammer to Fall in the Shadow of Death
Robert DeVall
14. Don’t Lose Your Head: The Interconnectedness of Queen and Highlander
Kevin Taylor
15. We Want to Love Forever, Forever is Ours Today
John Shook
Part VII: Some Body to Love
16. Freddie and Mary: A Single Soul Dwelling in Two Bodies
Andrew Kaplan
17. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy

Darci Doll
Part VIII: Supersonic Men

18. Queen and My Uncle’s Delicacy of Taste and Passion

Christopher M. Innes
19. He Will Rock You: Socrates was the Most Rock and Roll of Men

Michael F. Patton
References (I Want it All)

Bohemian Biographies
Index (Now I’m Here)

Jared Kemling, a philosophy instructor at Rend Lake College, is editor of The Cultural Power of Personal Objects (2021).

Randall E. Auxier, professor of philosophy and communication studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is author of numerous works including As Deep as It Gets: Movies and Metaphysics (2022) and Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock (2017).