{"product_id":"bowie-9781944869144","title":"Bowie","description":"Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early seventies, when the singer appeared on Britain's most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of \"Starman\" mesmerized Critchley: it was \"so sexual, so knowing, so strange.\" Two days later Critchley's mum bought a copy of the single; she liked both the song and the performer's bright orange hair (she had previously been a hairdresser). The seed of a lifelong love affair was thus planted in the mind of her son, aged 12. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this concise and engaging excursion through the songs of one of the world's greatest pop stars, Critchley, whose writings on philosophy have garnered widespread praise, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his dull life in southern England's suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and identity are turned inside out in Bowie's work. The result is nearly as provocative and mind-expanding as the artist it portrays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Critchley\u003c\/b\u003e is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eOn Humour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Dead Philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow to Stop Living and Start Worrying\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eImpossible Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mattering of Matter\u003c\/i\u003e (with Tom McCarthy), \u003ci\u003eThe Faith of the Faithless\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine\u003c\/i\u003e (with Jamieson Webster). An experimental new work, \u003ci\u003eMemory Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming. He is series moderator of \"The Stone,\" a philosophy column in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, to which he is a frequent contributor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"OR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635419316498,"sku":"9781944869144","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_de3c640f-12ff-46b7-9745-c4436c5e8a9a.jpg?v=1759234538","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bowie-9781944869144","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}