Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports

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By Mike McNamee

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Paperback

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Social Science, Philosophy and Ethics, Extreme Sports

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Further Details

• Published: 23rd May 2007
• ISBN: 0415351855
• Pages: 240
• Size: 234mm x 156mm

From the Publisher:

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, offering students a uniquely focused reader of this burgeoning area of interest as well as providing graduates and academics with a groundbreaking new direction for study 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. Risk Jockeys, Athletes of the Dangerous, and Philosophers of Death 2. Nature and Risk in Adventure Sports 3. Kant Goes Skydiving: Understanding Extreme Sports and the Culture of Risk by way of the Sublime 4. The Quest for Excitement and the Safe Society 5. Going Solo: Nietzsche's Ubermensch in the Outdoors 6. Philosophy Outdoors: First Person Physical 7. Wild Nature in Crowded Places: Mountaineering and Wilderness Experience 8. Aesthetic and Ethical Considerations Concerning Sport in Wild Places 9. Can BASE Jumping Be Morally Defended? 10. The Ontology of Experience and Extreme Sports 11. 'Extreme' Sport 12. Reading Water: Bergsonian Knowledge of Surf and Whitewater 13. Legislators and Interpreters: An Examination of Changes in Philosophical Interpretations of 'Being a Mountaineer' 14. Running With the Bulls 15. Committed to the Surf 16. Notes on the Phenomenology and Epistemology and Snowboarding