Each book in this series takes a easy-to-understand philosophic look at a particular aspect of everyday life or pop culture. Original.
With more than 400 billion cups consumed worldwide every year, there is much to discuss philosophically about one of the world's most popular drinks. Essays by journalists, philosophers, coffee insiders, and coffee aficionados offer a penetrating analysis of coffee and its surrounding culture. Featured writers include Mark Pendergrast, coffee expert Kenneth Davids, and the Coffee Bean Guys James Kirkland and Dan Levy. Plus an interview with Matt Lounsbury of Stumptown Coffee.
Enjoy the philosophical aroma as the book offers fascinating discussions on topics such as:
The ethics involved in coffee growth
Caffeine as performance-enhancing drug
The centrality of the coffeehouse to the public sphere
Just how good can a cup of coffee be?
Coffee-Philosopy for Everyone kick-starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussions of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of the world of coffee.
Scott F. Parker's writing has appeared in Philosophy Now, Sport Literature, Fiction Writers Review, Epiphany, The Ink-Filled Page, and Oregon Humanities. He is a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books.
Michael W. Austin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University, where he works primarily in ethics.
Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew,
Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of coffee.
- Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffee discusses 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 to the public sphere
- Includes a foreword by Donald Schoenholt, President at Gillies Coffee Company
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? (Mark Pendergrast).
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 Karma of Waking Up
(Steven Geisz).
5 The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee and Otherness (Jill
Hernandez).
PART 2 GROUNDS FOR DEBATE: COFFEE CULTURE.
6 Sage Advice from Bens Mom, or: The Value of the Coffeehouse (Scott F.
Parker).
7 The Coffeehouse as a Public Sphere: Brewing Social Change (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: COFFEE AESTHETICS.
10 Three Cups: The Anatomy of a Wasted Afternoon (Will Buckingham).
11 Is Starbucks Really Better than Red Brand X? (Kenneth Davids).
12 The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the Espresso Aesthetic (Andrew
Wear).
13 Starbucks and the Third Wave (John Hartmann).
14 How Good the Coffee Can Be: An Interview with Stumptowns Matt Lounsbury
(Scott F. Parker).
PART 4 TO ROAST OR NOT TO ROAST: THE ETHICS OF COFFEE.
15 More than 27 Cents a Day: The Direct Trade (R)evolution (Gina Bramucci
and Shannon Mulholland).
16 Higher, Faster, Stronger, Buzzed: Caffeine as a Performance-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! (The Coffee Bean
Guys).
Notes on Contributors.
Editors
SCOTT F. PARKER has contributed chapters to Ultimate Lost and Philosophy, Football and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, Golf and Philosophy, and iPod and Philosophy. He is a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books. His writing has also appeared in Philosophy Now, Sport Literate, Fiction Writers Review, Epiphany, The Ink-Filled Page, and Oregon Humanities.
MICHAEL W. AUSTIN is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University, where he works primarily in ethics. He has published Conceptions of Parenthood: Ethics and the Family (2007), Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Football and Philosophy: Going Deep (2008).
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