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

The existentialist thinker Jean-Paul Sartre as soon as declared "the best restrict of aquatic sports activities . . . is waterskiing." The avid surfer and lavishly credentialed tutorial thinker Aaron James vigorously disagrees, and in Browsing with Sartre he intends to expound the pondering surfer's view of the matter, within the course of 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-philosophical worldview, he attracts from his personal expertise of browsing and from surf tradition and lingo, and consists of many related particulars from the lives of the philosophers, from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, with whose thought he engages. Within the course of, he'll converse to readers seeking private and social that means in our present anxious second, by the use of doing actual, genuine philosophy.