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Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6797-0
Paperback
240 pages
October 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • 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
  • Features writings from some of America’s leading philosophers, including Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taliaferro, and J.P. Moreland
    Includes a foreword by the editor of Runner’s World magazine
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