{"product_id":"surfing-with-sartre-an-aquatic-inquiry-into-a-life-of-meaning-9781101970157","title":"Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry Into a Life of Meaning","description":"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.\" \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332310831378,"sku":"9781101970157","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8c62ed2a-4106-435d-9ad4-6bd6bc4d6ea3.jpg?v=1727833844","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/surfing-with-sartre-an-aquatic-inquiry-into-a-life-of-meaning-9781101970157","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}