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Sport and Political Ideology (Paperback)
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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
of political doctrine. Hoberman argues that a political ideology's
interpretation of sport is shaped in part by the value it assigns
to work and play as modes of experience; the political
anthropologies of right and left can be distinguished by examining
their resistance to-or affinity for-sportive imagery of their
leaders and of the state itself; there exists a fascist temperament
that shows an affinity to athleticism and the sphere of the body
that is not shared by the left. Tracing modern sport ideology back
to its premodern antecedents, Hoberman examines the interpretations
of sport that have been promulgated by European political
intellectuals, such as cultural conservatives and contemporary
neo-Marxists, and by the official ideologists of Nazi Germany, the
Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, and China before and
after Mao. As a form of mass theater, sport can advertise any
ideology. But the deeper relationship between sport and political
ideology has never before been explored wth such vigor. Presenting
the first general theory of sport and political ideology to appear
in any language, Hoberman's groundbreaking work is a unique and
invaluable contribution to the intellectual and political history
of sport in the twentieth century.
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