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

Resumen del libro

Jean-Paul Sartre once declared waterskiing to be the ideal limit of aquatic sports. Aaron James, who is both an avid surfer and a professor of philosophy, vigorously disagrees. In these pages, he presents his surfer's worldview as a foil to Sartre's, along the way 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's philosophy, he draws from surf culture and lingo and engages with philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. In the process, he speaks to those of us in search of personal and social meaning particularly in our current anxious moment by way of real, authentic philosophy. In or out of the water.

Biografía del autor

Aaron James es doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Harvard y profesor titular de filosofía por la Universidad de California, Irvine. Es el autor de 'Assholes: A Theory' (2015) y de 'Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy' (2012). Recibió el premio Burkhardt Fellowship del American Council of Learned Societies que financió su año académico (2009-2010) en el Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences en la Universidad de Stanford. En el 2013 fue profesor visitante del departamento de filosofía de la New York University.