An Ethics of Adventure

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ID23701835
AuthorsM Savransky (0000-0002-0807-8350, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages153-179
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAdventure of Relevance (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-57146-5_6
OpenAlexW2513507798
ISBN9781137571465
LanguageEN
References cited24

Savransky takes up the challenge of providing a characterisation of an ethics of adventure. To do this, the chapter elucidates the nature of ‘relevance’ as an event and investigates the complex temporal and ethical requirements that events pose on practices of social inquiry. While many traditions of social inquiry consist in reducing the becoming of events to pre-existing historical and social conditions, Savransky argues that an ethics of adventure characterises a mode of social inquiry that seeks not to explain, but to orient itself by, and towards, events. Thus, adventures are defined by a double challenge, which is at once temporal and ethical—that of inventing ways of inheriting the past while becoming exposed to possibilities concerning the future. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Adventure · Art history · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Event (particle physics) · Political science · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Engineering · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy

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