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Title
The metaphysics of ping-pong - table tennis as a journey of self-discovery and the spinning ball as our planet Earth
The metaphysics of ping-pong - table tennis as a journey of self-discovery and the spinning ball as our planet Earth
Author
Guido Mina Di Sospiro
Guido Mina Di Sospiro
format
Hardback
Hardback
Publisher
Random House
Random House
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20130905
20130905
Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2013
To 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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