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001491168 245__ $$aTotal Eclipse of the Heart: Bullshit, Sincerity, and the Aesthetics of Rock Music
001491168 269__ $$a2024-04-08
001491168 300__ $$a5 p.
001491168 520__ $$aAt the end of his 2005 monograph On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt makes a rather provocative claim: for a person skeptical about truth, insofar as one takes it to be the case that our grasp of the facts about ourselves is no more to be trusted than anything else in a bullshit-riddled world, “sincerity itself is bullshit”. The presentation proposed here explores that claim by way of a look of some of the work of rock musician and composer Jim Steinman, best known for creating hits for acts like Meat Loaf, Air Supply, and Bonnie Tyler and scoring some of the music from director Walter Hill’s 1984 “rock and roll fable” Streets of Fire. Unlike some approaches to the aesthetic application of Frankfurt’s work – like Eva Dadlez’s recent treatment of kitsch as the relevant analog of bullshit when it comes to art – the goal here is to use the example of the Steinman power ballad (represented by Bonnie Tyler’s recording of “Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around)”) to consider another possibility. It may turn out to be the case that bullshit and sincerity alike are doing a different kind of aesthetic and epistemological work than Frankfurt’s argument allows.
001491168 6531_ $$aJim Steinman
001491168 6531_ $$aTotal Eclipse of the Heart
001491168 6531_ $$aHarry Frankfurt
001491168 6531_ $$aOn Bullshit
001491168 6531_ $$aKitsch
001491168 6531_ $$aAesthetics
001491168 7001_ $$aBernhardt, Laura M.$$uDavid L. Rice Library$$10000-0001-8037-7120$$01416327
001491168 711__ $$aEclipse: The 16th Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana$$d2024-04-08
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001491168 980__ $$aPRESENTATION
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001491168 998__ $$aBotz-Bornstein, T. (2016). The aesthetic experiences of kitsch and bullshit. Literature & Aesthetics, 26, 1–22.
001491168 998__ $$aDadlez, E. M. (2018). Kitsch and bullshit as cases of aesthetic and epistemic transgression. Southwest Philosophy Review, 34(1), 59–67. https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview20183416
001491168 998__ $$aFrankfurt, H. G. (2005). On bullshit. Princeton University Press.
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001491168 998__ $$aMulcahy, R. (Director). (1983). Total eclipse of the heart (turn around). [Official video via VEVO] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo
001491168 998__ $$aRichardson, A. (2011). Performing bullshit and the post-sincere condition. In G. L. Hardcastle & G. A. Reisch (Eds.), Bullshit and philosophy: Guaranteed to get perfect results every time. Open Court.
001491168 998__ $$aSteinman, J. (n.d.). Lyrics for songs sung by Bonnie Tyler: Total eclipse of the heart. 
Dream pollution: The Jim Steinman web site. Retrieved April 7, 2024, from https://jimsteinman.com/bonnielyrics.htm#eclispe
001491168 998__ $$aThe artist’s mind. (n.d.). Dream pollution: The Jim Steinman web site. Retrieved April 7, 2024, from https://jimsteinman.com/bio7.htm
001491168 998__ $$aWang, J. (2023, November 28). Bonnie Tyler says “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was written for Nosferatu musical. Entertainment Weekly. https://ew.com/bonnie-tyler-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-written-nosferatu-musical-8407370
001491168 998__ $$aWhat is my Thomas Kinkade worth? (2023). CV Art and Frame. Retrieved April 7, 2024, from https://cvartandframe.com/what-is-my-thomas-kinkade-worth/