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The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong: Table Tennis as a Journey of Self-Discovery

The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong: Table Tennis as a Journey of Self-Discovery

di Sospiro, Guido Mina

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ISBN10: 0835609421
ISBN13: 9780835609425
Publisher: Quest Books (IL)
Published: Sep 1 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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