Ocean: A Philosopher's Route

By Roberto Casati

'If you want to know, you can't stay at home, and you have to be prepared to pay a high price.'

The ocean is a kind of otherness. Beneath a glittering surface, it is black. It is one. It teems with life. It is a place, but also the content of that place. It is not inexhaustible and cannot forgive everything. It is the space of doubt and a challenge to knowledge. It is not made for us human beings, yet we depend on it.

Crossing the ocean as a sailor-philosopher, Roberto Casati takes the reader on a truly initiatory journey. The sea's otherness makes us rethink it from a new perspective, to understand the extent to which it has made us who we are and who we are destined to become. Navigating in a space of seemingly limitless freedom radically changes one's relationship to the environment, to people, and even to objects. The boat becomes a school of life that compels one to rethink everything in order to act differently. Sailing leads to new ways of knowing: a philosopher's route.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN9N1FNQ
• ISBN13: 9791098563041
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Editions Croulebarbe
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"