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Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone Grounds for Debate

by: Allhoff, Fritz; Parker, Scott F.; Austin, Michael W.; Schoenholt, Donald

Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone Grounds for Debate

by: Allhoff, Fritz; Parker, Scott F.; Austin, Michael W.; Schoenholt, Donald

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1444337122
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/22/2011
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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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 beCaffeine-related chapters cover the ethics of the coffee trade, the metaphysics of coffee and the centrality of the coffee house to the public sphereIncludes a foreword by Donald Schoenholt, President at Gillies Coffee Company

Foreword	p. xiii
Editors' Introduction	p. 1
The First Cup: Coffee and Metaphysics	p. 7
Coffee: Black Puddle Water or Panacea?	p. 9
The Necessary Ground of Being	p. 25
The Unexamined Cup Is Not Worth Drinking	p. 34
Samsara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karma of Waking Up	p. 46
The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee and Otherness	p. 59
Grounds for Debate: Coffee Culture	p. 71
Sage Advice from Ben's Mom, or: The Value of the Coffeehouse	p. 73
The Coffeehouse as a Public Sphere: Brewing Social Change	p. 89
Café Noir: Anxiety, Existence, and the Coffeehouse	p. 100
The Philosopher's Brew	p. 113
The Wonderful Aroma of Bean: Coffee Aesthetics	p. 125
Three Cups: The Anatomy of a Wasted Afternoon	p. 127
Is Starbucks Really Better than Red Brand X?	p. 138
The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the Espresso Aesthetic	p. 152
Starbucks and the Third Wave	p. 166
How Good the Coffee Can Be: An Interview with Stumptown's Matt Lounsbury	p. 184
To Roast or Not to Roast: The Ethics of Coffee	p. 193
More than 27 Cents a Day: The Direct Trade (R)evolution	p. 195
Higher, Faster, Stronger, Buzzed: Caffeine as a Performance-Enhancing Drug	p. 205
Green Coffee, Green Consumers - Green Philosophy?	p. 217
Coffee and the Good Life: The Bean and the Golden Mean	p. 228
How to Make it in Hollywood by Writing an Afterword! The Coffee Bean Guys	p. 239
Notes on Contributors	p. 242
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Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone Grounds for Debate

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