Description
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
Table of Contents
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.
