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UNINA9910130881403321 |
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Coffee : philosophy for everyone : grounds for debate / / Fritz Allhoff [and three others] |
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Chichester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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1-283-40807-4 |
9786613408075 |
1-4443-9337-5 |
1-4443-9336-7 |
1-4443-9338-3 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Collana |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COFFEE - PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE: Grounds for Debate; CONTENTS; Foreword; Editors' Introduction; PART 1 THE FIRST CUP: COFFEE AND METAPHYSICS; 1 Coffee: Black Puddle Water or Panacea?; 2 The Necessary Ground of Being; 3 The Unexamined Cup Is Not Worth Drinking; 4 Samsara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karma of Waking Up; 5 The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee and Otherness; PART 2 GROUNDS FOR DEBATE: COFFEE CULTURE; 6 Sage Advice from Ben's Mom, or: The Value of the Coffeehouse; 7 The Coffeehouse as a Public Sphere: Brewing Social Change |
8 Café Noir: Anxiety, Existence, and the Coffeehouse9 The Philosopher's Brew; PART 3 THE WONDERFUL AROMA OF BEAN: COFFEE AESTHETICS; 10 Three Cups: The Anatomy of a Wasted Afternoon; 11 Is Starbucks Really Better than Red Brand X?; 12 The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the Espresso Aesthetic; 13 Starbucks and the Third Wave; 14 How Good the Coffee Can Be: An Interview with Stumptown's Matt Lounsbury; PART 4 TO ROAST OR NOT TO ROAST: THE ETHICS OF COFFEE; 15 More than 27 Cents a Day: The Direct Trade (R)evolution |
16 Higher, Faster, Stronger, Buzzed: Caffeine as a Performance- |
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Enhancing Drug17 Green Coffee, Green Consumers - Green Philosophy?; 18 Coffee and the Good Life: The Bean and the Golden Mean; How to Make it in Hollywood by Writing an Afterword!; Notes on Contributors |
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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 |
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