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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, American.
Surfing.
Surfers -- California -- Anecdotes.
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James, Aaron (Aaron J.)
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, American.
Surfing.
Surfers -- California -- Anecdotes.
Sports -- Philosophy.
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Surfing with Sartre : an aquatic inquiry into a life of meaning / Aaron James.
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James, Aaron (Aaron J.)
Doubleday Books, 2017.
Call #:
201
.6797
J27s
Subjects
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, American.
Surfing.
Surfers -- California -- Anecdotes.
Sports -- Philosophy.
ISBN:
9780385540735 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
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.
Summary:
"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 he expounds 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. He speaks to readers in search of personal and social meaning in our current anxious moment, by way of doing real, authentic philosophy. Aaron James, professor of philosophy at the University of California at Irvine is the author of Assholes: A Theory, Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump, and Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy. He's an avid surfer."--Provided by publisher.
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