“I have arrived in Lisbon, but not at a conclusion,” wrote Fernando Pessoa in his “Book of Disquiet.” The journey always has a point of arrival, but to be a passenger is to be suspended in the gap between destination and destination, reality and daydream.
Michael Marder delves into the interstices of the adventure of travel and offers a novel philosophical guide to the “condition of passenger,” whether on long-distance journeys or on everyday commutes. Being a passenger is not just a formality or a metaphor, but rather a universal experience that confronts us with the fabric of our own human existence: time, space, boredom, our sense of self, and our cognition of the world.

“The Philosophy of the Passenger” is more than a clever and penetrating description of all the modes and stages of travel. What Marder does can only be done by a true philosopher: gradually elaborating the idea of ​​the passenger as something that defines our current human essence.”
Slavoj Žižek