Overview
- Is the first to study long-distance running using the phenomenological and hermeneutical method Increases our understanding of the nature of ethics and the ethical experiences in man
- Presents new insights on the significance and profundity of physical exercise
- Offers ideas that can be applied to any type of long-lasting physical exercise
- Can help athletes find new levels in their training and increased understanding of the experience
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Deconstruction of ego
- Existential phenomenology
- Going beyond the reason and the wisdom of the body
- Heidegger's ontic and fundamental ontology
- Long-distance running
- Merleau-ponty´s philosophy of the body
- Moving meditation
- Partisipative method
- Running and the quality of life
- Running as a way of life
- Theory and praxis
About this book
This book describes and analyzes the levels of experience that long-distance running produces. It looks at the kinds of experiences caused by long-distance running, the dimensions contained in these experiences, and their effects on the subjective life-world and well-being of an individual. Taking a philosophical approach, the analysis presented in this book is founded on Maurice Merleau-Ponty´s phenomenology of the body and Martin Heidegger´s fundamental ontology.
Running is a versatile form of physical exercise which does not reveal all of its dimensions at once. These dimensions escape the eye and are not revealed to the runner conceptually, but rather as sensations and emotions. Instead of concentrating on conceptual analysis, this book explores the emotions and experiences and examines the meaning that running has in runners´ lives. Using the participative method, in which the author is both the research subject and the researcher, the book contributes to the philosophy of physical exercise.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Running
Book Subtitle: The Multiple Dimensions of Long-Distance Running
Authors: Tapio Koski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15597-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15596-8Published: 30 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36595-4Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15597-5Published: 16 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 172
Additional Information: Original Finnish edition published by Tampere University Press, Tampere, 2005
Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Man, Ethics, Ontology