Whether it's conkers in the schoolyard, kicking a football in the
park, or playing tennis on Wimbledon Centre Court, sport impacts
all of our lives. But what is sport and why do we do it? Colin
McGinn, renowned philosopher (and kiteboarder), reflects on our
love of sport and explores the value it has for us and the part it
plays in a life lived well. Written in the form of a memoir, McGinn
discusses many of the sports he has engaged in - from pole-vaulting
and gymnastics to windsurfing and tennis - and describes the
athletic experience from the inside, as a participant, articulating
what is uniquely valuable about sport as an activity. Sport, argues
McGinn, takes us to our fullest potential as human beings, it's
what we fling at mortality to keep it at bay, a holiday from the
Unbearable Heaviness of Being. "Sport" expresses our nature, it
bears upon our self-realization. If a happy life consists in one
that expresses fully our natural faculties, then sports must play
an essential role in our lifes. Mind-body unity, the nature of
practical knowledge and physical skill, success and failure, the
ethics of competition, peak experiences, the spectacle of
professional sport, aesthetics and death, McGinn discusses these
and many other issues while telling of his own sporting mishaps and
adventures. To use the vernacular of philosophy, "Sport" captures
the phenomenology of sport - what it's like to do it - and in doing
so shows how sport is a way of expressing and understanding who and
what we are, way beyond whether we are a good sportsman, a bad
loser or a team-player. For anyone who has ever thought that there
must be less humiliating ways to enjoy yourself than being thrashed
on the tennis court, "Sport" will reassure you that it's time not
wasted.
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