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Philosophy, risk and adventure sports / edited by Mike McNamee.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Outdoor recreation.
- Extreme sports.
- Sports--Philosophy.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk / Mike McNamee 1
- 2 The quest for excitement and the safe society / Gunnar Breivik 10
- 3 Legislators and interpreters: an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of 'being a mountaineer' / Paul Beedie 25
- 4 Philosophy outdoors: first person physical / John (Michael) Atherton 43
- 5 Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of 'bolting' / Philip Ebert, Simon Robertson 56
- 6 Reading water: risk, intuition, and insight / Douglas Anderson 71
- 7 Nature and risk in adventure sports / Kevin Krein 80
- 8 Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places / Alan P. Dougherty 94
- 9 Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding / Sigmund Loland 106
- 10 The performative avant-garde and action sports: Vedic philosophy in a postmodern world / Robert E. Rinehart 118
- 11 Extreme sports and the ontology of experience / Ivo Jirasek 138
- 12 Kant goes skydiving: understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza 149
- 13 Can BASEjumping be morally defended? / Gunnar Breivik 168
- 14 Walking the edge / Verner Moller 186.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415351847
- 0415351855
- 0203698576
- 9780415351843
- 9780415351850
- 9780203698570
- OCLC:
- 76864174
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