The Philosophy of the Beats (2012)

Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky (book, anthology), 2012.
9.25" x 6.375" x 1", 291 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 978-0-8131-3580-9.

The Philosophy of the Beats, edited by Sharin N. Elkholy, as published by The University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky) in 2012. This is an anthology of philosophy essays about the Beat Generation.

Micheal Sean Bolton contributes "From Self-Alienation to Posthumanism: The Transmigration of the Burroughsian Subject", pp. 65-78. 

Jones Irwin contributes "William Burroughs as Philosopher: From Beat Morality to Third Worldism to Continental Theory", pp. 267-280.

There are a number of brief mentions of Burroughs outside of these two contributions, as well.

Contents: 

• Sharin N. Elkholy: Introduction
• I. The Beats: Creating a Subculture:
• F. Scott Scribner: "The Philosophy and Non-Philosophy of Potato Salad"
• Roseanne Giannini Quinn: "Laugh of the Revolutionary: Diane di Prima, French Feminist Philosophy, and the Contemporary Cult of the Beat Heroine"
• Christopher Adamo: "Beat U-topos or Taking Utopia on the Road: The Case of Jack Kerouac"
• Josh Michael Hayes: "Being-at-Home: Gary Snyder and the Poetics of Place"
• II. Beat Identities: Selfhood and Experimentation:
• Micheal Sean Bolton: "From Self-Alienation to Posthumanism: The Transmigration of the Burroughsian Subject"
• Tom Pynn: "'I am not an I': Performative (Self)Identity in the Poetry of Bob Kaufman"
• A. Robert Lee: "Tongues United: Beat Ethnicities, Beat Multiculture"
• Jane Falk: "Joanne Kyger 'Descartes and the Splendor Of': Bridging Dualisms through Collaboration and Experimentation"
• III. Beat Avant-Garde: Spontaneity and Immediacy:
• Ann Charters: "John Clellon Holmes and Existentialism"
• David Sterritt: "Wholly Communion: Poetry, Philosophy, and Spontaneous Bop Cinema"
• Erik Mortenson: "High Off the Page: Representing the Durg Experience in the Work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg"
• Marc Olmsted: "Genius All the Time: The Beats, Spontaneous Presence, and Primordial Ground"
• David Need: "Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Difference: Philosophy, Being in Time, and Creativity in the Aesthetics of Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, and John Cage"
• IV. Beat Politics: Ethics and Affinities:
• Andreas Seland: "Two Ways of Enduring the Flames: The Existential Dialectics of Love in Kierkegaard and Bukowski"
• Ed D'Angelo: "Anarchism and the Beats"
• Paul Messersmith-Glavin: "Between Social Ecology and Deep Ecology: Gary Snyder's Ecological Philosophy"
• Jones Irwin: "William Burroughs as Philosopher: From Beat Morality to Third Worldism to Continental Theory"
• List of Contributors
• Index