Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports

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ISBN: 9780203698570 | 0203698576
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Copyright: 6/4/2007

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This book is a collection of papers examining philosophical perspectives of adventure sports and related concepts of risk, danger, death, elation, authenticity and wilderness, written by well-known academics with personal experience of these fascinating sports.

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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 BASE jumping be morally defended?
Walking the Edge
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