Gebundenes Buch

Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781138569836
• ISBN-10: 1138569836
• Artikelnr.: 50906696