Bibliograph

Surfing with Sartre, an aquatic inquiry into a life of meaning, Aaron James

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Surfing with Sartre, an aquatic inquiry into a life of meaning, Aaron James

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Surfing with Sartre

Oclc number

962890365

Responsibility statement

Aaron James

Sub title

an aquatic inquiry into a life of meaning

Summary

A philosopher and avid surfer discusses his ideas about freedom, being, phenomenology, morality, epistemology, and the values of "leisure capitalism.""The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once declared that 'water skiing is the ideal limit of aquatic sports.' The avid surfer and lavishly credentialed academic philosopher Aaron James vigorously disagrees, and in Surfing with Sartre he expounds the thinking surfer's view of the matter, elucidating such philosophical categories as freedom, being, flow, 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 engages with philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, noting many relevant details from their lives. In the process, he speaks to readers in search of personal and social meaning in our current anxious moment by way of doing real, authentic philosophy. In or out of the water."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

This book is about surfing, and not -- Epistemology in action -- What the surfer knows -- Freedom -- Control -- Metaphysics -- Flow -- Being -- Transcendence -- Political philosophy -- Society -- Nature -- Work -- Under a fortunate sun

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