Towards a Sustainable Philosophy of Endurance Sport Cycling for Life /

• Main Author: Welters, Ron (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 37
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Sustainable development.; Sports sciences.; Philosophy of Man.; Sustainable Development.; Sport Science .

This book provides new perspectives on endurance sport and how it contributes to a good and sustainable life in times of climate change, ecological disruption and inconvenient truths. It builds on a continental philosophical tradition, i.e. the philosophy of among others Peter Sloterdijk, but also o...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1. Prologue: The Good Life, Endurance and Sustainable Cycling
• Chapter2. Sport and the Environment: Ecosophy, Metanoia and Renaissance
• Chapter 3. Metabletics of Spinal Sport: Between Being in the World and Perfection of the Self
• Chapter4. On Ascetic Practices, Hermeneutical Cycles and Ecosophical Endurance
• Chapter5. When Continentalism meets Pragmatism: Enduring Life in the Strenuous Mood
• Chapter6. Finding your Own Pace: On Agon and Ecosophical Endurance
• Chapter7. Epilogue: Turning and Turning in a Widening Gyre - Coming of Age on a Bicycle.