Surfing with Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre once declared water-skiing to be “the ideal limit of aquatic sports.” Aaron James, an avid surfer and professor of philosophy, vigorously disagrees and in Surfing with Sartre he expounds the thinking surfer’s view of the matter, 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-philosophical worldview, he draws from surf culture and lingo and engages with philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. In the process, he speaks to readers in search of personal and social meaning in our current anxious moment, by way of real, authentic philosophy. In or out of the water.