The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong EPUB
by Guido Mina di Sospiro
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2013To spin or not to spin? – that is the metaphysical question. 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, D.C.
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.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:05/09/2013
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- ISBN:9781448163274
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
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- ISBN:9781448163274