Phenomenology and the Extreme Sport Experience

ISBN-13: 9780367374501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 196 str.

Eric Brymer; Robert Schweitzer

Opis

This book revisits the definition of extreme sports and adopts a broad hermeneutic phenomenological approach to critique the relationship to risk-taking, the death wish and the concept of ‘no fear’ in extreme sports, and repositions the experience in a previously unexplored manner.

O autorze

Eric Brymer is a Reader in the Institute of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds UK.

Robert Schweitzer is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology and Counselling at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.