Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning

Jean-Paul Sartre once declared waterskiing to be ôthe ideal limit of aquatic sports.ö Aaron James, who is both an avid surfer and a professor of philosophy, vigorously disagrees. In these pages, he presents his surferÆs worldview as a foil to SartreÆs, along the way elucidating such philosophical categories as freedom, being, phenomenology, morality, epistemology, and even the emerging values of what he terms ôleisure capitalism.ö In developing his unique surferÆs philosophy, he draws from surf culture and lingoùand engages with philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. In the process, he speaks to those of us in search of personal and social meaningùparticularly in our current anxious momentùby way of real, authentic philosophy. In or out of the water.

• | Author: Aaron James
• | Publisher: Anchor
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1101970154
• | ISBN-13: 9781101970157