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Surfing with Sartre : An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning by Aaron James (2017, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385540736

ISBN-139780385540735

eBay Product ID (ePID)237520226

Product Key Features

Book TitleSurfing with Sartre : an Aquatic Inquiry Into Alife of Meaning

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMind & Body, Movements / Existentialism, Sociology of Sports, History & Surveys / Modern, Surfing

Publication Year2017

GenrePhilosophy, Sports & Recreation

AuthorAaron James

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight17.8 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-000670

Reviews"I surf, therefore I am: a good-natured exploration of some of the big questions philosophy raises, all while hanging 10. In this nimble set of essays on topics such as work and freedom, James... gives a fine if idiosyncratic account of how philosophers puzzle out the world--idiosyncratic because it's framed from the point of view of a surfer. Throughout, the book is provocative and less laid-back than it might appear at first glance. A 12-page glossary defines some surfing and philosophy terms alike. Heidegger as ho-daddy? The approach is unusual, but to fruitful--and entertaining--ends." -- Kirkus Reviews

SynopsisFrom 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.

LC Classification NumberB936.J36 2017