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The Professor in the Cage - Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch (Paperback)
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The Professor in the Cage - Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch (Paperback)
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Loot Price R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
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An English professor starts training in mixed martial arts,
exploring the science and history behind the violence of men When a
mixed martial arts (MMA) gym opens across the street from his
office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge. Pushing forty, out of
shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English
professor, he works up his nerve and finds himself training for an
all-out cage fight. He sees it not just as a personal test, but
also as an opportunity to answer questions that have intrigued him
for years: Why do men fight? And why do so many seemingly decent
people love to watch? In The Professor in the Cage, Gottschall's
unlikely journey from the college classroom to the fighting cage
drives an important new investigation into the science and history
of violence. The surging popularity of MMA-a full-contact sport in
which fighters punch, choke, and kick each other into submission-is
just one example of our species' insatiable interest both in
violence and in the rituals that keep violence in check. From duels
to football to the roughhousing of children, humans are masters of
what Gottschall calls the monkey dance: a dizzying variety of
rule-bound contests that establish hierarchies while minimizing
risk and social disorder. Gottschall's unsparing odyssey-through
extremes of pain, occasional humiliation, his wife's incredulity,
and ultimately his own cage fight-opens his, and our, eyes to the
uncomfortable truth that, as brutal as these contests can be, the
world would be a much more chaotic and dangerous place without
them.
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