Since their breakthrough hit "Creep" in 1993, Radiohead has continued to make
waves throughout popular and political culture with its views about the Bush
presidency (its 2003 album was titled Hail to the Thief), its anti-corporatism,
its pioneering efforts to produce ecologically sound road tours, and, most of
all, its decision in 2007 to sell its latest album, In Rainbows, online with
a controversial "pay-what-you-want" price. Radiohead and Philosophy offers
fresh ways to appreciate the lyrics, music, and conceptual ground of this highly
innovative band. The chapters in this book explain how Radiohead.s music connects
directly to the philosophical phenomenology of thinkers like Maurice Merleau-Ponty
and Martin Heidegger, the existentialism of Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre, and
the philosophical politics of Karl Marx, Jean Baudrillard, and Noam Chomsky. Fans
and critics know that Radiohead is "the only band that matters" on the scene today .
Radiohead and Philosophy shows why.

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