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Surfing with Sartre

Surfing with Sartre

An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning

by Aaron James
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/08/2017

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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 values of what he terms "leisure capitalism." In developing his unique surfer-philosophical worldview, he draws from his own experience of surfing and from surf culture and lingo, and includes many relevant details from the lives of the philosophers, from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, with whose thought he engages. In the process, he'll speak to readers in search of personal and social meaning in our current anxious moment, by way of doing real, authentic philosophy.

ISBN:
9780385540735
9780385540735
Category:
Surfing
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-08-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
218.44x147.32x33.02mm
Weight:
0.5kg
Aaron James

Aaron James holds a PhD from Harvard and is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Fairness in Practice- A Social Contract for a Global Economy, the bestselling Assholes- A Theory, Assholes- A Theory of Donald Trump, Surfing with Sartre and numerous academic articles. He was awarded a Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and spent an academic year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

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