| Description |
xvii, 214 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The roots of competitive sport -- Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment sport -- Compensatory athleticism -- Sport propagandized -- Sport commodified -- The martial/commercial model -- Drugs and competitive sport -- Problems of performance enhancement -- Gender, aggression, and violence -- Sport by the numbers -- Sensationalism and ego-puffing -- The aesthetic/recreational model -- Aesthetic spectacle -- Playful integrity -- The aesthetics of journeying -- Beauty as unity -- Economy of performance -- The aretic model -- Aretism and values -- Aretism and education -- Aretism and society -- Is sport a good? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sports -- Philosophy.
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Physical fitness -- Philosophy.
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Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Competition (Psychology)
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| Author |
Reid, Heather Lynne, 1963-
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| LC no. |
2011007245 |
| ISBN |
9780739148815 cloth alkaline paper |
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0739148818 cloth alkaline paper |
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