Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure

Herausgeber: Andrieu, Bernard; Porrovecchio, Alessandro; Parry, Jim

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Produktbeschreibung

The field of body ecology offers fresh insights into how the body engages with its surroundings through consciousness, perception, knowledge and emotion. In this groundbreaking study, scholars of sport, leisure and philosophy flesh out the concept of body ecology and its potential for helping us understand our connection with the world around us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138569836
• ISBN-10: 1138569836
• Artikelnr.: 50906696

Autorenporträt

Bernard Andrieu is Professor of Philosophy and Epistemology of the Body at the University Paris-Descartes, France. He is Director of Body Technics; Coordinator of Body Ecology in Adapted, Physical Sport Activities; and Co-Editor of Corps, a review published by CNRS. His main interests are in body ecology, emersiology, self health, sport ethics, somatechny, and the history of somaticians Jim Parry is former Head of Philosophy and of the School of Humanities, University of Leeds, UK. He is now Visiting Professor at the Faculty of PE and Sport, Charles University, Prague. His main interests are in applied ethics (especially sports ethics) and social and political philosophy. He is co-editor of the Routledge series Ethics and Sport Alessandro Porrovecchio is Assistant Lecturer in Sociology of Sport at the University of Lille II, France. His main interests are in interdisciplinary sociology-based research on sports and health. He is Vice-Coordinator of the European Sociological Association Olivier Sirost is a Professor at the Université de Rouen Normandie, France, and Head of the CETAPS Laboratory. His main interests are in the study of the senses and outdoor leisure. He is the author of La vie au grand air; and with Bernard Andrieu the Editor of L'écologie corporelle

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction Part I: Body Ecology: The Basic Concepts Introduction
to Part I 1. Central Themes in Body Ecology 2. Georges Hébert (1875-1957):
A Naturalist's Invention of Body Ecology 3. The Concept of 'Body Schema' in
Merleau-Ponty's Account of Embodied Subjectivity 4. Body, Flow and
Learning: From Feldenkrais to Csikszentmihalyi 5. Sport, Health and
Academia: A Reflexive Approach to the Disenchantment and the Re-Enchantment
of the Body 6. The Naturalising Process of Technique: The Antimony of
Nature and Culture through the Lens of Chinese Practices 7. Health,
Well-Being and Sport: Some Personal Reflections Part II: Emersion in the
Leisure Environment and the Recosmologisation of Sport Introduction to Part
II 8. Ecological Transition and Recreative Leisure in Nature 9. Naked
Surfing in Tambaba, Brazil: An Example of Body Ecology 10. Body Ecology and
Urban Sports: Parkour as an Interdisciplinary Immersion in the City
Environment 11. Heidegger, Sport and Body Ecology 12. The Recosmologisation
of the World: From Monte Verita to Naturism 13. Body Ecology and Academic
Well-Being: What Sustainable Health Can Be Offered to Adolescents through
the Practice of Body Art Activities? PART III: Emersive Leisure and
Aesthesiology Introduction to Part III 14. Bodies in the Wind: Dance and
Nature on Redinha Beach, Natal, Brazil 15. 'No pain no gain': The Puritan
Ethic in Bodybuilding 16. The Emersion of Blackout in Freediving:
Moderation and Immoderation 17. The Emersion of Sensation in Slacklining
18. The Emersion of Involuntary Gesture in the Vertiginous Circus Arts