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Item Details
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A PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT
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| By: |
Prof. Steven Connor |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£17.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1861899734 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781861899736 |
| Publisher: |
REAKTION BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2012 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
In A Philosophy of Sport Steven Connor offers a new philosophical understanding of sport. In order to define what sport essentially is and means, Connor presents a complete sporting grammar, isolating and describing its essential spaces, equipment, movements, time, rules and morality. |
| Synopsis: |
In A Philosophy of Sport Steven Connor offers a new philosophical understanding of sport in its own terms, in distinction to previous writing on the philosophy of sport that has tended to see sport as a kind of testing ground for philosophical theories devised to deal with other kinds of problems - of ethics, aesthetics or logical categorization. In order to define what sport essentially is and means, Connor presents a complete grammar of sport, isolating and describing its essential elements, including the characteristic spaces of sport, the nature of sporting time, the importance of sporting objects like bats and balls, the methods of movement in sport, the roles of rules and chance, and what it really means to cheat and to win. Defined as games that involve bodily exertion and exhaustion, sports simultaneously require constraint and the ability to overcome it. Sport, argues Connor, is a fundamental feature of modern humans. It is shown to be one of the most powerful ways in which we negotiate the relationship between the human and natural worlds.Encompassing a huge range of different sports, and enlisting the help of Hegel, Freud, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Sartre, Ayer, Deleuze and Serres, A Philosophy of Sport will inform, surprise and delight thoughtful athletes and sporty philosophers alike. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Reaktion Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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