Led Zeppelin has long been one of the legends of rock, massively successful both commercially and critically. While there are many books about the band, this is the first to plumb the philosophical depths of the creators of "Stairway to Heaven." Now readers can discover new ways to appreciate Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and the band. Individual essays explore how Hegel's metaphysics can illuminate Zeppelin’s dynamic reconciliation of musical opposites; how various theories of the Sublime provide the key to understanding the enduring power and global appeal of Zeppelin's music; and how Freud and Foucault's understanding of fetishism lends insight to songs like "Trampled Underfoot," "Black Dog," and "Candy Store Rock." Other topics examine the claim that Zeppelin’s originality can only be properly understood as the product of a necessarily social and "extended mind," and why the band’s infamous serial destruction of hotel rooms across North America and Europe amount to a challenge to liberal democracy itself.