{"product_id":"philosophy-for-passengers-isbn-9780262543712","title":"Philosophy for Passengers","description":"\u003cb\u003eA philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile there are entire bookstore sections—and even entire bookstores—devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide to passengerhood. He takes readers from ticketing and preboarding (preface and introduction) through a series of stops and detours (reflections on topics including time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses) to destination and disembarking (conclusion). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMarder finds that the experience of passengers in the twenty-first century is experience itself, stretching well beyond railroad tracks and airplane flight patterns. On his journey through passengerhood, he considers, among many other things, passenger togetherness, which goes hand in hand with passenger loneliness; flyover country and the idea of placeness; and Descartes in an airplane seat. He tells us that the word \u003ci\u003emetaphor\u003c\/i\u003e means transport in Greek and discusses the gray area between literalness and metaphoricity; explains the connection between reading and riding; and ponders the difference between destination and destiny. Finally, a Beckettian disembarking: you might not be able to disembark, yet you must disembark. After the voyage in the world ends, the journey of understanding begins.Ticketing 1\u003cbr\u003ePreboarding 7\u003cbr\u003eThe Boarding Process (A): The Basics 13\u003cbr\u003eThe Boarding Process (B): The Passenger Society 25\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 1: Mood 37\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 2: Time 55\u003cbr\u003eDetour no. 1: \u003ci\u003eNo Pasarán! \u003c\/i\u003e67\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 3: Place 75\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 4: Existence 89\u003cbr\u003eDetour no. 2: Passengers, Hollywood Style 101\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 5: Transport 109\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 6: Metaphor 121\u003cbr\u003eConnection\/Transfer: Passages 133\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 7: Reading, Riding 139\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 8: Security 149\u003cbr\u003eDetour no. 3: \"The Yellow Arrow\" 161\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 9: Senses 173\u003cbr\u003eStop no. 10: Destination, Destiny 191\u003cbr\u003eDisembarking 203\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Images 207\u003cbr\u003eNotes 217“We are all passengers in one sense or another: refugees, tourists, precarious nomad workers, making business trips or simply taking a daily ride to our workplace. \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Passengers\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a witty and penetrating description of all modes and stages of traveling. What Marder does only a true philosopher can do: he gradually elaborates the idea of passenger as something that defines our human essence today. His book is not a guide for the perplexed, but a guide for the non-perplexed: it makes even those who are used to their role as passengers wonder at what strange beings they are.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek, author of \u003ci\u003eHegel in a Wired Brain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSex and the Failed Absolute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In this inspiring book, Michael Marder invites us to make the most challenging trip, the one of thinking and sensing our passing existence, anchoring ourselves in the experience of passing and passages. While collating philosophical views on life’s transitory character and the writer’s accounts of personal travels, the book departs from our daily being-in-passing, transported by different kinds of means—technical and physic, concrete and imaginary—and reveals a still unthought and unsensed web of relations and emotions. \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Passengers\u003c\/i\u003e is like a thinking graffiti, seizing passing visions and thoughts scribbled on the walls of the world that is itself in motion toward an unknown destination.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMarcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University, Sweden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Logging in hotspots and toponymies of travel, the work reflects on modalities of experience where passivity meets technology, strapping in the existential passenger on the run, coerced or exulted by the constraints of being, in one way or another, infantilized and controlled, without appeal to any travel ‘agency.’ Reminiscent of Roland Barthes’s \u003ci\u003eMythologies\u003c\/i\u003e in scope, yet haunted by transports and proto-totalitarian aspects of passenger assignment, Michael Marder’s text [JMF1] reviews a pervasive lexicon of ride-along mobility. Stuck in the back seat of life, exposed to the rush of the death drive—or ecstatically transported, carried over by a metaphorics of reading and mapping—the Subject has yielded to the passenger, backseat, or death row. Marder is tuned to the lay of lands riddled with rites of passage, passports, bureaucratic impasses, and identity switchovers as he clocks the passing of time ticking down. His writing interrogates with relentless application our relation to ‘passengerhood,’ locating disguised traps of a trip booked in an era of pandemic overdrive.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAvital Ronell, University Professor of German and Comparative Literature, New York University\u003c\/b\u003eMichael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU). He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDump Philosophy: A Phenomenology of Devastation\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300889612517,"sku":"NP9780262543712","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543712.jpg?v=1767734721","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/philosophy-for-passengers-isbn-9780262543712","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}