Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mcnamee, Mike J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With interest and participation in extreme and adventure sports growing year on year, the time is ripe for a thoughtful and analytical assessment of this phenomenon from a rigorous philosophical perspective. This collection of essays is the first single-source treatment of adventure sports from an exclusively philosophical standpoint. The text offers students a uniquely focused reader of this burgeoning area of interest and provides scholars with a source book for further studies in this area. Featuring contributions from well-respected writers in the field who each also have personal familiarity of participation in adventure and extreme sports, this is set to become a classic analysis of the intersections between philosophy and extreme experiences, encompassing essential related concepts of elation, danger, death, wilderness and authenticity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134264360
• Artikelnr.: 42981260

Autorenporträt

Mike J. McNamee

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Quest for Excitement and the Safe Society Gunnar Breivik 2.
Legislators and Interpreters: an examination of changes in philosophical
interpretations of 'being a mountaineer' Paul Beedie 3. Philosophy
Outdoors: First Person Physical John Michael Atherton 4. Adventure,
climbing excellence and the practice of 'bolting' Philip Ebert and Simon
Robertson 5. Reading water: risk, intuition, and insight Douglas Anderson
6. Nature and Risk in Adventure Sports Kevin Krein 7. Aesthetic and ethical
issues concerning sport in wilder places Alan P. Dougherty 8. Outline of a
Phenomenology of Snowboarding Sigmund Loland 9. The Performative
Avant-Garde and Action Sports: Vedic Philosophy in a Postmodern World
Robert E. Rinehart 10. Extreme sports and the ontology of experience Ivo
Jirásek 11. Kant Goes Skydiving: Understanding the Extreme by way of the
Sublime Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza 12. Can BASE jumping be morally defended?
Gunnar Breivik 13. Walking the Edge Verner Møller