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From The Wall

Pop Goes Philosophy: Rock Hits Wall

Pink Floyd and Philosophy

by ed. George Reisch

Open Court

November 2007, 288 pages, $17.95

[3 March 2008]

by George Reisch and Brandon Forbes

Does a conservative obsession with its past threaten the originality and imagination of today's rock music? Pink Floyd's The Wall casts a long shadow on the genre.

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Reprinted by permission of Open Court Publishing Company, from Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with that Axiom, Eugene! © 2007 by Open Court Publishing Company.

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