{"product_id":"surfing-with-sartre-an-aquatic-inquiry-into-a-life-of-meaning-paperback","title":"Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry Into a Life of Meaning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAaron James\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron James holds a PhD from Harvard and is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Assholes: A Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAssholes: A Theory of Donald Trump\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous academic articles. He was awarded a Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and spent the 2009-10 academic year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He's a skilled, lifelong surfer and lives in Irvine, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772744892704,"sku":"9781101970157","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ba517478531a110d283e6d6f4791147d.webp?v=1780413071","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/surfing-with-sartre-an-aquatic-inquiry-into-a-life-of-meaning-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}