The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong: Table Tennis As a Journey of Self-Discovery - Couverture souple

Sospiro, Guido Mina Di

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0835609421 ISBN 13 : 9780835609425

Editeur : Quest Books,U.S., 2015

Synopsis

When a mortifying defeat to his teenage son rekindles his lifelong passion for table tennis, keen philosopher Guido Mina di Sospiro sets out to learn the game properly.

Guido's love for spinning a feather-weight ball takes him from his local Ping-Pong club, populated by idiosyncratic players with extraordinary stories to tell, to training drills with a world-class coach. This seemingly harmless game also leads him into sticky situations in the CIA headquarters and the ganglands of Washington, DC. Woven throughout his Ping-Pong epiphany are philosophical ruminations on Plato and Aristotle, metaphysicians and empiricists, Jung's dark shadow, Sun Tzu's war tactics, the I Ching, and much more.

As Guido's journey takes him from Big Sur to a nail-biting showdown in China against a string of elite players, he finds Ping-Pong can teach us a surprising amount about life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Guido Mina di Sospiro is an award-winning, internationally published author. He has written three books that have been published around the world and maintains a blog on the New York-based web-magazine Reality Sandwich and on the alternative views website Disinformation. He lives in the Washington, DC area with his wife and their three sons and travels often to Europe and elsewhere to promote his books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quest Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0835609421
• ISBN 13: 9780835609425
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible