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Oooh... Shiny!
Thursday September 3, 2009

Ooohh.... shiny!

It’s not yet published, but I’m very excited to see the shiny new cover of Finding Our Sea-Legs: Ethics, Experience and the Ocean of Stories (not to be confused with the obscure and now out-of-print Surrealist masterpiece, “Finding Our Seal Eggs”) on the Amazon.co.uk website. The book is due to be launched at the beginning of October, but is now available for pre-order from Amazon, at least here in the UK (although not yet in the States). Here’s a bit of blurb from the Amazon website, which gives some kind of flavour of what it is all about:

When it comes to ethics, it seems that we are all at sea. Since the beginning, the philosophers have always dreamed of finally reaching solid ground, but their proofs and demonstrations and laws have failed to bring us into harbour. Incapable of defining virtue, we manage to tell tales about it; not quite sure what justice is, we still spin yarns about the just and the unjust. Casting the reader adrift onto the sea of stories, attentive to the changes in the winds and the tides, through both philosophy and storytelling, this book explores ethics not as a means of finding our way back home to a safe harbour, but instead as a way of acclimatising ourselves to life on the seas of uncertainty.

I’ll keep you all updated about the launch, and closer to the time I might even post an extract to tempt you to part with your hard-earned cash.

 
#1 · steve

3 September 2009

Sounds intriguing – I look forward to it.

#2 · David Chapman

3 September 2009

Congratulations — I look forward to it hugely, and will order as soon as it is available in the US.

David

#3 · Will

4 September 2009

Thanks, both. I’ll be keeping an eye on availability on the other side of the Atlantic, so I’ll update here when it comes out over there.

All the best,

Will

#4 · Jayarava

6 September 2009

I agree with your starting premise about the lack of clarity about values and ethics, so I’ll be interested to see what you do with it :-)

Jayarava

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