Eric Brymer, Robert Schweitzer (Kelvin Grov Queensland University of Technology

Phenomenology and the Extreme Sport Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This book revisits the definition of extreme sports and adopts a broad hermeneutic phenomenological approach to critique the relationship to risk-taking, the death wish and the concept of à â Ë no fearà â â in extreme sports, and repositions the experience in a previously unexplored manner.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 235mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780367374501
• ISBN-10: 0367374501
• Artikelnr.: 69798375

Autorenporträt

Eric Brymer is a Reader in the Institute of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds UK. Robert Schweitzer is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology and Counselling at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Extreme Sports
2. Principals of Phenomenology
3. Translating Principles into Practice
4. Phenomenology and Extreme Sports: An Hermeneutic Phenomenological
Methodology
5. The Risk Hypothesis
6. The Death-Wish Hypothesis
7. The `No Fear¿ Hypothesis
8. Experience of Transformation
9. Becoming Who You Are
10. Experience of Freedom
11. Evoking the Ineffable
12. Returning to the Life-World of Extreme Sport