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Philosophy, risk, and adventure sports / edited by Mike J McNamee.

Contributor(s): McNamee, M. J. (Mike J.).
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2007Description: xi, 202 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415351843 (hbk.).Subject(s): Outdoor recreation | Extreme sports | Sports -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 796.5
Contents:
Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk / Mike Mcnamee -- The quest for excitement and the safe society / Gunnar Breivik -- Legislators and interpreters : an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of being a mountaineer / Paul Beedie -- Philosophy outdoors : first person physical / John Michael Atherton -- Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of bolting / Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson -- Reading water : risk, intuition, and insight / Douglas Anderson -- Nature and risk in adventure sports / Kevin Krein -- Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places / Alan P. Dougherty -- Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding / Sigmund Loland -- The performative avant-garde and action sports : vedic philosophy in a postmodern world / Robert E. Rinehart -- Extreme sports and the ontology of experience / Ivo Jirasek -- Kant goes skydiving : understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza -- Can basejumping be morally defended? / Gunnar Breivik -- Walking the edge / Verner Mller.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk / Mike Mcnamee -- The quest for excitement and the safe society / Gunnar Breivik -- Legislators and interpreters : an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of being a mountaineer / Paul Beedie -- Philosophy outdoors : first person physical / John Michael Atherton -- Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of bolting / Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson -- Reading water : risk, intuition, and insight / Douglas Anderson -- Nature and risk in adventure sports / Kevin Krein -- Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places / Alan P. Dougherty -- Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding / Sigmund Loland -- The performative avant-garde and action sports : vedic philosophy in a postmodern world / Robert E. Rinehart -- Extreme sports and the ontology of experience / Ivo Jirasek -- Kant goes skydiving : understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza -- Can basejumping be morally defended? / Gunnar Breivik -- Walking the edge / Verner Mller.