Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports

Name: Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports
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ISBN: 9780415351843

ISBN-10: 0415351847

ISBN-13: 9780415351843

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mike J. McNamee, Mike J. McNamee

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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…

Book details

List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.53" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of figures


Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements



Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk




The quest for excitement and the safe society




Legislators and interpreters: an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of 'being a mountaineer'




Philosophy outdoors: first person physical




Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of 'bolting'




Reading water: risk, intuition, and insight




Nature and risk in adventure sports




Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places




Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding




The performative avant-garde and action sports: Vedic philosophy in a postmodern world




Extreme sports and the ontology of experience




Kant goes skydiving: understanding the extreme by way of the sublime




Can BASEjumping be morally defended?




Walking the edge



Index