Sport and Political Ideology

by John M. Hoberman

Book Overview

Across the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however, varies distinctively and characteristically with the ideology--a phenomenon John Hoberman terms "ideological differentiation." Taking this phenomenon as its point of departure, this provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of the twentieth century as distinct expressions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292775881
• ISBN13: 9780292775886
• Release Date: July 1984
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"