Parker / Austin Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone

Grounds for Debate
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9336-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Philosophy for Everyone

Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew,Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day withan entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics,metaphysics, and culture of coffee.
* Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffeediscusses just how good coffee can be
* Caffeine-related chapters cover the ethics of the coffee trade,the metaphysics of coffee and the centrality of the coffee house tothe public sphere
* Includes a foreword by Donald Schoenholt, President at GilliesCoffee Company

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Scott F.

Austin, Michael W.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Allhoff, Fritz

Schoenholt, Donald

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (Donald Schoenholt).
Editors' Introduction (Scott F. Parker and Michael W.Austin).
PART 1 THE FIRST CUP: COFFEE AND METAPHYSICS.
1 Coffee: Black Puddle Water or Panacea? (MarkPendergrast).
2 The Necessary Ground of Being (Michael W. Austin).
3 The Unexamined Cup Is Not Worth Drinking (Kristopher G.Phillips).
4 Sam. sara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karmaof Waking Up (Steven Geisz).
5 The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee andOtherness (Jill Hernandez).
PART 2 GROUNDS FOR DEBATE: COFFEE CULTURE.
6 Sage Advice from Ben's Mom, or: The Value of theCoffeehouse (Scott F. Parker).
7 The Coffeehouse as a Public Sphere: Brewing SocialChange (Asaf Bar-Tura).
8 Café Noir: Anxiety, Existence, and the Coffeehouse(Brook J. Sadler).
9 The Philosopher's Brew (Bassam Romaya).
PART 3 THE WONDERFUL AROMA OF BEAN: COFFEEAESTHETICS.
10 Three Cups: The Anatomy of a Wasted Afternoon (WillBuckingham).
11 Is Starbucks Really Better than Red Brand X? (KennethDavids).
12 The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the EspressoAesthetic (Andrew Wear).
13 Starbucks and the Third Wave (John Hartmann).
14 How Good the Coffee Can Be: An Interview withStumptown's Matt Lounsbury (Scott F. Parker).
PART 4 TO ROAST OR NOT TO ROAST: THE ETHICS OFCOFFEE.
15 More than 27 Cents a Day: The Direct Trade(R)evolution (Gina Bramucci and Shannon Mulholland).
16 Higher, Faster, Stronger, Buzzed: Caffeine as aPerformance-Enhancing Drug (Kenneth W. Kirkwood).
17 Green Coffee, Green Consumers - Green Philosophy?(Stephanie W. Aleman).
18 Coffee and the Good Life: The Bean and the Golden Mean(Lori Keleher).
How to Make it in Hollywood by Writing an Afterword! (TheCoffee Bean Guys).
Notes on Contributors.

Über Autor(innen)

Scott F. Parker has contributed chapters to UltimateLost and Philosophy, Football and Philosophy, Alice inWonderland and Philosophy, Golf and Philosophy, and iPod andPhilosophy. He is a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Reviewof Books. His writing has also appeared in Philosophy Now,Sport Literate, Fiction Writers Review, Epiphany, TheInk-Filled Page, and Oregon Humanities.
Michael W. Austin is an Associate Professor of Philosophyat Eastern Kentucky University, where he works primarily in ethics.He has published Conceptions of Parenthood: Ethics and theFamily (2007), Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for theMind (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Football and Philosophy:Going Deep (2008).