Sport has gained increasing importance for welfare society. In this
process, however, the term of 'sport' has become less and less
clear. Larger parts of what nowadays is called 'sport for all' are
non-competitive and derived from traditions of gymnastics, dance,
festivity, games, outdoor activities, and physical training rather
than from classical modern elite sports. This requires new
philosophical approaches, as the philosophy of sport, so far, has
been dominated by topics of elite sports. Based on Scandinavian
experiences, the book presents studies about festivities of sport,
outdoor activities, song and movement, and play and game. The
engagement of elderly people challenges sports. Games get political
significance in international cooperation, for peace culture and as
means against poverty (in Africa). The empirical studies result in
philosophical analyses on the recognition of folk practice in
education and on relations between identity and recognition. The
study of 'sport for all' opens up for new ways of phenomenological
knowledge, moving bottom-up from sport to the philosophy of "the
individual", of event, of nature, and of human energy. Popular
sports give inspiration to a philosophy of practice as well as to a
phenomenological understanding of 'the people', of civil society
and the 'demos' of democracy - as folk in movement. This book was
published as a special issue in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
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