Chat with Author Aaron James via Spreecast on May 21!

Join us on May 21 at 1:30 p.m. EDT via Spreecast for a conversation with Aaron James, bestselling author of Assholes: A Theory, about what it means to be an asshole, how we can better understand the assholes we encounter, and what we can do to manage them.

You can watch and participate in the event here or through the Vintage Books & Anchor Books Facebook page. RSVP by clicking on the Remind Me button below!

Hope you can join us for what is sure to be a thought-provoking discussion!

About the Book
What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name. We try to avoid them, but assholes are everywhere—at work, at home, on the road, in the public sphere—and we struggle to comprehend why exactly someone should be acting like that.

Asshole management begins with asshole understanding. Finally giving us the concepts to discern why assholes disturb us so, philosopher Aaron James presents a provocative theory of the asshole to explain why such people exist, especially in an age of raging narcissism and unbridled capitalism. We get a better sense of when the asshole is best resisted and best ignored—a better sense of what is, and what is not, worth fighting for.

About the Author
Aaron James holds a PhD from Harvard and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy, and was awarded the Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, spending the 2009-10 academic year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He’s an avid surfer (the experience of which has directly inspired this book) . . . and he’s not an asshole.