Jim Morrison, The Poet in Exile, – Paris, 1971

This book primarily concerns Jim Morrison’s first sojourn to Paris, in June and July, 1970 and, but most importantly, it concerns Jim Morrison’s “Extended Sabbatical” to Paris, – we discover Jim’s personal thoughts, the essence behind Jim’s personal philosophy and psychology in relation to Paris, – which is, of course, necessary, to fully understand James Douglas Morrison, the poet in exile, The Lord of Misrule. Using investigative journalism, based fundamentally upon philosophical logic, I have reexamined the tragic circumstances under which Jim Morrison died mysteriously and, – although the majority of the material I read remains fraught with contradictory remarks, the parts pertaining to the evidentiary objective facts of the case, are absolutely trustworthy, the rest of it, remains significantly untrustworthy, – just because people do not always tell the truth when they testify, – they can be extremely economical with the truth, or they have great difficulty accurately remembering the objective facts of the case, as they unfolded in the temporal march of Hegelian historicity, – but, then again, the most trustworthy among us do have moral scruples and, they feel an obligatory duty to remain entirely truthful. This book primarily concerns Jim Morrison’s lifelong relationship with literature, philosophy and art, – as a rebellious adolescent, Jim increasingly submerged himself in literary pursuits, most particularly the literary pursuit of writing poetry, not as a quaint bourgeois activity, but rather as a fiery visceral end in itself, Jim read a gargantuan quantity of philosophy, most particularly revolutionary philosophy, – absolutely devouring books by Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger, Hegel, Camus, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montaigne and Plato, for Jim, the more revolutionary the philosopher, the better. The intellectual measure of a truly great philosopher, for Jim, was his commitment to revolutionary ideology, for course, Nietzsche’s revolutionary credentials, – as the revolutionary philosopher par excellence, – just meant, as a “revolutionary philosopher”, he easily stood head and shoulders above everybody else. But Jim Morrison, although he undoubtedly spent the majority of his adolescence perfecting the literary pursuit of writing poetry and, in the scholarly pursuit of reading philosophy books, in the pursuit of philosophical enlightenment (qua Philosophical Knowledge as a teleological end in itself), Jim Morrison, – the Renaissance Man par excellence, probably strongly believed in Karl Marx’s philosophical concept of the Division of Labour, just because Jim clearly divided his labour and time between writing poetry, reading philosophy and literature and, the pursuit of the fine arts (qua Les Beaux-Arts), particularly drawing, painting and sculpture. Read more