Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone

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

Autorentext

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).

Zusammenfassung
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

Inhalt
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 Ben's 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
Stumptown's 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.