Philosophic Inquiry in Sport

by William John Morgan, William J. Morgan, Klaus V. Meier

Designed for both undergraduate and graduate courses, Philosophic Inquiry in Sport is a combination of 56 classic and contemporary essays that strike a balance between analytical, existential, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873227166
• ISBN13: 9780873227162
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.5" x 9.0"

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Great Compilation on Sport Philosophy

Table Of contents Part 1 The Nature of Sport, Play, and Game. The nature of play The structure and classification of games Words on Play Sport and play: Suspension of the ordinary The elements of sport A critique of Mr. Suits definition of game playing On McBride on the definition of games The ethos of games Bibliography for the nature of sport, Play, and games Part 2 Sport and Embodiment The separation of body and soul The real distinction between mind and body of man The challenge of the body Embodiment, Sport, and meaning The body If I am my body The lived body as a phenomenological Datum The symbolism of the healthy body; A philosophic analysis of the sprotive imagery of health. Orchids and muscles Bibliography for sport and embodiment Part 3 Sport, Play, and Metaphysics The ontology of Play Taking play seriously Play and sport Play aand possibility Man and sport An affair of flutes: An appreciation of Play Bibliography for Sport, play, and Metaphysics Part 4 Sport and Ethics (Competition, sportsmanship, Cheating and Failure) From Test to Contest: An analysis of two kinds of counterpoint in sport. Competition and friendship Sportsmanship as a moral category Sportsmanship Deception, Sportsmanship, and Ethics Why the good foul is not good Some reflections on success and failure in competitive athletics Cheating and fair play in sport Can cheaters play the game? (Drugs and Sport) Good competition and drug-enhanced performance Paternalism, drugs, and the nature of sports Blood doping and athletic competition Provacy and the urinalysis testing of athletes Sport and the technological image of man (Women and Sport) Sex equality in sports The exclusion of women from sport: Conceptual and existential dimensions Women, sex, and sports Human equality in sports Women and masculine sports Bibliography for sport and ethics Part 5 Sport and Social-Political Philosophy The sportive origin of the state New patterns in social relations Toward a social philosophy of acheivement and athletics The degradation of sport Play, Utopia, and dystopia: Prologue to a ludic Theory of the state Hegemony and sport Bibliography for sport an social-political philosophy Part 6 Sport and Aesthetics Play and beauty Sport--The body electric The aesthetic in sport Sport, art, and particularity: The best equivocation Beauty, Sport, and Gender A commentary on jan Boxhill's "Beauty, Sport, and Gender" Context and intention in sport and art Sport is not Art Bibliography for sport and aesthetics