Post-punk and philosophy: rip it up and think again

Well, how did we get here?

Part One: Post-punk and the human person. 1. Post-punk's melancholy melody / Candace Miranda and Walter Barta ; 2. Love in the time of post-punk / Catherine Villanueva Gardner ; 3. Post-punk authenticity and the public image / Michael Rings ; 4. We're through being cool! / Mitch Haney

Part Two: Post-punk and the ghost of philosophy. 5. Art will tear art apart ... again / Casey Rentmeester ; 6. The existential drama of "Once in a Lifetime" / Scott Gordon ; 7. Post-punk under the shadow of nihilism / Markus Kohl

Part Three: Post-punk politics. 8. From Velvet Underground to velvet revolution / Marty Sulek ; 9. Joe Strummer and globalization / George A. Dunn ; 10. Gothicizing the post-punk carcass / Peter J. Church ; 11. Stone the stone-throwers or grove past the gatekeepers? / Ocean Cangelosi

Part Four: Post-punk and the big scene. 12. Morrissey's post-punk Daoism / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ; 13. Folk punk and global indigenous philosophies / Matthew Crippen ; 14. Icons falling from spires / Chelsi Barnard

Part Five. Post-Punk Aesthetics : 15. Post-punk and the aesthetics of atmosphere / S. Evan Krieder - 16. Recipe for a post-punk song / Candace Miranda and Walter Barta - 17. Post-punk wonder / Jeremy Bendik-Keymer ; 18. Post-punk and Socratic philosophy / Robert König

Part Six: Post-punks behaving badly. 19. Mark E. Smith : guru of post-punk / Martin Muchall and Paul Breeden ; 20. Elvis Costello raises hell on SNL / David LaRocca

Part Seven: In search of the essence of post-punk. 21. Post-punk music : your scene? / Mihaela Frunza ; 22. Rip it up and start again / Georgina H. Mills ; 23. Post-punk as democratic mass culture / Mindy Clegg ; 24. Adventures close to home / Jesse Prinz.