Browsing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry right into a Lifetime of That means

Jean-Paul Sartre as soon as declared waterskiing to be “the best restrict of aquatic sports activities.” Aaron James, who’s each 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, alongside the way in which elucidating such philosophical classes as freedom, being, phenomenology, morality, epistemology, and even the rising values of what he phrases “leisure capitalism.”
 
In creating his distinctive surfer’s philosophy, he attracts from surf tradition and lingo—and engages with philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. Within the course of, he speaks to these of us searching for private and social that means—significantly in our present anxious second—by means of actual, genuine philosophy. In or out of the water.