Book Review: Sailing – Catching the Drift of Why We Sail. (Philosophy For Everyone)

Sailing – Catching the Drift of Why We Sail. (Philosophy For Everyone).

Patrick Goold (ed). (2012). Chichester: Wiley.

Cycling: A Philosophical Tour De Force (Philosophy for Everyone).

Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza and Michael Austin (eds). (2010). Chichester: Wiley.

These are 2 out the 18 books currently in the Philosophy For Everyone series. From the wording of the titles you can get an idea of the way the books are written. Punning can sometimes be seen as a cheap narrative trick, but used well it can enhance the meaning and even indicate meanings that were not otherwise available. It does occasionally get a bit self consciously clever but never quite enough to detract from the content. It is one thing to adopt a particular style of writing for a book but to get all the contributors to do the same is a more difficult task, but all the chapters in both books generally use it with the same facility. It is highly likely that should you choose to read one of the books in the series you will choose one that speaks to you, one that you know something about and that has led you to think, to wonder, about your relationship to yourself and the world around you. This is certainly the case here. I have been

Rupert King