Surfing with Sartre : an aquatic inquiry into a life of meaning

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Surfing with Sartre : an aquatic inquiry into a life of meaning
Title remainder
an aquatic inquiry into a life of meaning
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Aaron James
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Language
eng
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
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DLC
Dewey number
201/.679732
Index
index present
LC call number
B936
LC item number
.J36 2017
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography

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