Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405167971 ISBN 13: 9781405167970

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

A unique anthology of essays exploring the philosophical wisdom runners contemplate when out for a run. It features writings from some of America's leading philosophers, including Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taliaferro, and J.P. Moreland.* A first-of-its-kind collection of essays exploring those gems of philosophical wisdom runners contemplate when out for a run* Topics considered include running and the philosophy of friendship; the freedom of the long distance runner; running as aesthetic experience, and "Could a Zombie Run a Marathon?"* Contributing essayists include philosophers with athletic experience at the collegiate level, philosophers whose pasttime is running, and one philosopher who began running to test the ideas in his essay

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A unique anthology of essays exploring the philosophical wisdom runners contemplate when out for a run. It features writings from some of America's leading philosophers, including Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taliaferro, and J.P. Moreland. .

Review:

"With equal measures of scholarship and soul, the essays in Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind, edited by Michael W. Austin, touch on religion, pain, happiness, and other topics that are best explored on a long run. With a pack of philosophers." (Runner's World, November 2007)

"The contributors are runners who approach the subject of running and philosophy sympathetically...there is enough in [the book] to the get the inner dialogue started." (Orange Community News)

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405167971
• ISBN 13: 9781405167970
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Austin Michael W.