Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning Audiobook (Free)

From the bestselling writer of Assholes: A Theory, a reserve that—in the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days and Zen as well as the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—uses the knowledge as well as the ethos of surfing to explore key concepts in philosophy.

The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once announced ‘the ideal limit of aquatic sports . can be waterskiing.’ The avid surfer and lavishly credentialed educational philosopher Aaron Adam vigorously disagrees, and in Surfing with Sartre about Browsing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry right into a Life of Signifying he intends to expound the thinking surfer’s view of the matter, in the process elucidating such philosophical groups as freedom, getting, phenomenology, morality, epistemology, and even the emerging beliefs of what he terms ‘amusement capitalism.’ In developing his exclusive surfer-philosophical worldview, he attracts from his very own experience of surfing and from surf lifestyle and lingo, and contains many relevant details in the lives from the philosophers, from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, with whose thought he engages. In the process, he’ll talk with readers searching for personal and public meaning in our current stressed moment, by way of doing real, authentic philosophy.