Intro -- Contents -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication-I -- Dedication-II -- Foreword -- Editors' Introduction -- PART 1: THE FIRST CUP: COFFEE AND METAPHYSICS -- Chapter 1: Coffee: Black Puddle Water or Panacea? -- Chapter 2: The Necessary Ground of Being -- Chapter 3: The Unexamined Cup is not Worth Drinking -- Chapter 4: Samsara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karma of Waking Up -- Chapter 5: The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee and Otherness -- PART 2: GROUNDS FOR DEBATE: COFFEE CULTURE -- Chapter 6: Sage Advice from Ben's Mom, or: The Value of the Coffeehouse -- Chapter 7: The Coffeehouse as a Public Sphere: Brewing Social Change -- Chapter 8: Café Noir: Anxiety, Existence, and the Coffeehouse -- Chapter 9: The Philosopher's Brew -- PART 3: THE WONDERFUL AROMA OF BEAN: COFFEE AESTHETICS -- Chapter 10: Three Cups: The Anatomy of a Wasted Afternoon -- Chapter 11: Is Starbucks Really Better than Red Brand X? -- Chapter 12: The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the Espresso Aesthetic -- Chapter 13: Starbucks and the Third Wave -- Chapter 14: How Good the Coffee can be: An Interview with Stumptown's Matt Lounsbury -- PART 4: TO ROAST OR NOT TO ROAST: THE ETHICS OF COFFEE -- Chapter 15: More than 27 Cents a Day: The Direct Trade (R)evolution -- Chapter 16: Higher, Faster, Stronger, Buzzed: Caffeine as a Performance-Enhancing Drug -- Chapter 17: Green Coffee, Green Consumers - Green Philosophy? -- Chapter 18: Coffee and the Good Life: The Bean and the Golden Mean -- How to Make it in Hollywood by Writing an Afterword! -- Notes on Contributors.