Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-415-35185-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McNamee, Mike J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Sportethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Psychologie, Soziologie, Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Tourismus & Reise: Soziologie, Psychologie, Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Mike J. McNamee