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Sport and Art - An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport (Hardcover, New)
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Sport and Art - An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ethics and Sport
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Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not
argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art
hold common ground. Both are ways in which humans confront
philosophical challenges, though they do this through very
different media. While art deploys sensual media such as paint or
sound, sport is the pursuit of a physical challenge at which the
athlete may fail. This is to propose, in an argument that has its
roots in Hegel's aesthetics, that sport may be interpreted as a way
of reflecting upon metaphysical and normative issues, such as the
nature of human freedom, fate and chance, and even our sense of
space and time. This argument is developed by proposing the concept
of a 'sportworld', an 'atmosphere of theory' and a 'knowledge of
history' through which an event is interpreted and thereby
constituted as sport. Ultimately, Sport and Art argues that in
order to be truly appreciated, sport must be understood within a
modernist aesthetics. That is to say that sport is not about
beauty, but rather about the struggle to find meaning in sporting
triumph and crucially sporting failure. This book was published as
a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
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