| Description |
xxii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Genesis. Prologue and transition: The "Pseudo-Olympics" of the nineteenth century / Gerald Redmond -- The genesis of the modern Olympic games / John A. Lucas -- Issues and problems. Amateurism. Capitalist and socialist interpretations of modern amateurism : an essay on the fundamental difference / Robert G. Osterhoudt -- Restrictions against "broken-time" to open Olympics / Eugene A. Glader -- Amateurism : myth and reality / Andrew Strenk. Women. Tryphosa, Melpomene, and Nadia : the IOC and women's sport / Betty Spears -- The state of women's sports : the Olympic, international, and national scenes / Urial Simri -- Politics, nationalism, and commercialism. Political problems in the Olympic Games / Jean M. Leiper -- Nationalism : inevitable and incurable? / Dale P. Toohey and Kristine Warning -- Analysis of ABC-TV coverage of the 21st Olympiad Games / Robert H. McCollum and David F. McCollum -- Olympic reform. The Olympic Games : past, present, and future / Roger Bannister -- A decalogue of Olympic Games reform / John A. Lucas -- Toward a social philosophy. Psychology and the Olympic Games. How sport psychology can help Olympians / Rainer Martens -- Sport psychology and Olympism : a reaction and elaboration / Carole A. Oglesby -- Reflections on sport psychology and the Olympic athlete / Daniel M. Landers -- Sociology and the Olympic Games. Sociological perspectives on the Olympic Games / March L. Krotee -- Crisis in the modern Olympic movement / Harry Edwards -- Sociocultural determinants of Olympic success / Jane Colwell -- An emerging theory of sport spectatorship : implications for the Olympic Games / John W. Loy -- Philosophy and the Olympic Games. The naturalistic fallacy, social philosophy, and the Olympics / Sscott B. Watson -- Social forces and professional concerns influencing the modern Olympic Games / Earle F. Zeigler -- Athletes, aesthetes, intellectuals, and the Olympic Games : then and now / Eleanor Metheny -- Sport philosophy and Olympism : a reaction and elaboration / Robert G. Osterhoudt -- Olympism and the sporting life : a socio-philosophical critique / William J. Morgan -- Modern Olympism in the conjunction of nineteenth and twentieth century civilization : Olympism as the transformative concept of purpose and the human in modern sport / Robert G. Osterhoudt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Olympics -- Philosophy.
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Olympics.
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| Author |
Chu, Donald.
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Segrave, Jeffrey.
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| LC no. |
80085204 |
| ISBN |
093125020X |
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