Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports
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Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9781134264353
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Aesthetics in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Figures
  5. Contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1. Adventurous Activity, Prudent Planners and Risk
  8. 2. The Quest for Excitement and the Safe Society
  9. 3. Legislators and Interpreters: An Examination of Changes In Philosophical Interpretations of ‘Being a Mountaineer’
  10. 4. Philosophy Outdoors: First Person Physical
  11. 5. Adventure, Climbing Excellence and the Practice of ‘Bolting’
  12. 6. Reading Water: Risk, Intuition, and Insight
  13. 7. Nature and Risk In Adventure Sports
  14. 8. Aesthetic and Ethical Issues Concerning Sport In Wilder Places
  15. 9. Outline of a Phenomenology of Snowboarding
  16. 10. The Performative Avant-Garde and Action Sports: Vedic Philosophy In a Postmodern World
  17. 11. Extreme Sports and the Ontology of Experience
  18. 12. Kant Goes Skydiving: Understanding the Extreme By Way of the Sublime
  19. 13. Can BASEjumping Be Morally Defended?
  20. 14. Walking the Edge

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