EAN: 9780262543712

PHILOSOPHY FOR PASSENGERS - MICHAEL MARDER KART...

A philosophical guide to passengerhood  with reflections on time  space  existence  boredom 
our sense of self  and our sense of the senses. While there are entire bookstore sections-and
even entire bookstores-devoted to travel  there have been few books on the universal experience
of being a passenger. With this book  philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap  offering a
philosophical guide to passengerhood. He takes readers from ticketing and preboarding (preface
and introduction) through a series of stops and detours (reflections on topics including time 
space  existence  boredom  our sense of self  and our sense of the senses) to destination and
disembarking (conclusion). Marder finds that the experience of passengers in the twenty-first
century is experience itself  stretching well beyond railroad tracks and airplane flight
patterns. On his journey through passengerhood  he considers  among many other things 
passenger togetherness  which goes hand in hand with passenger loneliness  flyover country and
the idea of placeness  and Descartes in an airplane seat. He tells us that the word metaphor
means transport in Greek and discusses the gray area between literalness and metaphoricity 
explains the connection between reading and riding  and ponders the difference between
destination and destiny. Finally  a Beckettian disembarking: you might not be able to disembark
yet you must disembark. After the voyage in the world ends  the journey of understanding
begins.

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