I saggi di Tiberio Snaidero

Tiberio Snaidero, Led Zeppelin’s Will to Power, Milano, Mimesis International, August 2020 🛒

In Led Zeppelin’s Will to Power, I examine the potential philosophical interpretations of Led Zeppelin, including: the original approach to the band’s management, the distinctive features of each of its four original members, the themes of the songs’ lyrics, the aesthetics of its musical production, the epic character of the tours, and the symbolism of the albums’ paratextual devices.

The results of this exegesis have allowed me to identify the constituent aspects of Led Zeppelin’s philosophy, as intentionally disclosed by the entity {Page + Plant + Jones + Bonham}. These aspects include the concepts of the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, ‘Ritual Repetition’, ‘Carnival’, ‘Sacred Eroticism’, ‘Vitalistic Hedonism’, ‘Will to Power’, and the Sublime.

This latter serves as an effective summary of Led Zeppelin’s philosophy and aesthetics, both in terms of the audience’s emotional reception and artistic production.

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