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Open Court Publishing's Popular Culture and Philosophy book series are collections of essays by academic philosophers exploring the meanings, concepts, and puzzles within television shows, movies, music and other icons of popular culture. Since its inception in 2000 with Seinfeld And Philosophy: A Book About Everything And Nothing the series has published over 40 titles including BOB DYLAN And Philosophy and PINK FLOYD And Philosophy. The publisher recently put out a call for papers via email for their upcoming RUSH And Philosophy book:

The rock band Rush resonates widely for musician-fans and others interested in structural complexity, individualism, and a range of literary and stylistic influences. The group has explored such genres as heavy metal and hard rock, progressive and synth-rock, and post-progressive "power trio," along with various secondary influences. However, the band has also wandered among such lyrical interests as relationships, fantasy-adventure, classical mythology, European and world history, science-fiction, libertarianism, atheism, science, and technology.

We are looking for short articles (of around twenty pages) to add to this proposed anthology. Writers in philosophy, musicology, economics, and psychology have already committed to Rush And Philosophy, and they are exploring the following areas from across Rush's career (1974 - ):

-personal tragedies, self-determination, and Sartre
-the anthropic cosmological principle and atheism
-Canadianness in Anglo-American genres and in lyrics and images
-tribute projects of the band's music in death metal, trip-hop, and classical strings
-the band's combination of secular humanism and mysticism
-libertarianism and left-libertarianism, rather than "right-wing"
-the cognitive function of riffs and other music in expressing difficult ideas
-a roundtable on political economy, Ayn Rand, and Rush's "2112"

Contributions from women, minorities, and people from outside of North America are most welcome!

Deadline for one-page abstracts: July 19, 2009 Deadline for completed first-drafts: August 31, 2009

Please send to Durrell Bowman and Jim Berti: db@durrellbowman.com; koors58@yahoo.com

There's currently no word on a release date. Other books on Rush and philosophy include 1998's Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush and 2002's A Simple Kind Mirror: The Lyrical Vision of Rush.