Philosophy, risk, and adventure sports / edited by Mike J McNamee.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; Routledge, 2007.Description: xi, 202p.; 24cmISBN:- 0415351847 (Cloth)
- 9780415351843 (Cloth)
- 796.5 MCN
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 796.5 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00212221 |
Includes index.
1.Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk. Mike McNamee -- 2.The quest for excitement and the safe socity. Gunnar Breivik -- 3.Legislators and interpreters: an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of \'being a mountaineer\'. Paul Beedie -- 4.Philosophy outdoors: first person physical. John (Michael) Atherton -- 5.Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of \'boldting\'. Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson -- 6.Reading water: risk, intuition, and insight. Douglas Anderson -- 7.Nature and risk in adventure sports. Kevin Krein -- 8.Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places. Alan P. Dougherty -- 9.Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding. Sigmund Loland -- 10.The performance avant\'garde and action sports: Vedic philosophy in a postmodern world. Robert E. Reinhart -- 11.Extreme sports and the ontology of experience. Ivo Jirásel -- 12.Kant goes skydiving: understanding the extreme buy way of the sublime. Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza -- 13.Can BASEjumping be morally defended? -- Gunnar Breivik -- 14.Walking the edge. Verner MØller.