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

The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once declared ‘the ideal limit of aquatic sports . is usually waterskiing.’ The avid surfer and lavishly credentialed educational philosopher Aaron Wayne vigorously disagrees, and in Surfing with Sartre about Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry right into a Lifestyle of Meaning he intends to expound the thinking surfer’s watch of the problem, in the process elucidating such philosophical categories as freedom, being, phenomenology, morality, epistemology, as well as the emerging beliefs of what he terms ‘leisure capitalism.’ In developing his unique surfer-philosophical worldview, he pulls from his very own experience of surfing and from surf culture and lingo, and contains many relevant information through the lives of the philosophers, from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, with whose thought he engages. Along the way, he’ll talk with readers in search of personal and cultural meaning in our current anxious moment, by way of doing real, authentic philosophy.