Surfing with Sartre An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning

Name: Surfing with Sartre An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning
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ISBN: 9781101970157

ISBN-10: 1101970154

ISBN-13: 9781101970157

Edition: 2018

Authors: Aaron James

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From the bestselling author of Assholes: A Theory, a book that--in the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance--uses the experience and the ethos of surfing to explore key concepts in philosophy. The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once declared "the ideal limit of aquatic sports . . . is waterskiing." The avid surfer and lavishly credentialed academic philosopher Aaron James vigorously disagrees, and in Surfing with Sartre he intends to expound the thinking surfer's view of the matter, in the process elucidating such philosophical categories as freedom, being, phenomenology, morality, epistemology, and even the emerging…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/1/2018
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English