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On Boxing - Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science (Hardcover)
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On Boxing - Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
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This book is a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary
boxing. It broadens and deepens our understanding of the
empirically and normatively entwined complexities of a sport that
is often misunderstood and all too easily reduced to stereotypes.
Moving between and among work in ethnography, sociology, urban
studies and, especially, the philosophy of sport, and drawing on
research in boxing gyms in the US, the book presents a stereoscopic
view of professional boxing as both situated cultural practice and
formalized competitive sport. It takes us inside and outside the
ring in discussions of the cultural embeddedness of boxing and
boxing gyms, the formation of pugilistic selfhood and 'boxer cool',
the nature and function of combat sport violence and sparring, and
the aesthetics and ethics of cornering a boxing match. With its
interdisciplinary focus on the empirical and normative dimensions
of professional pugilism, On Boxing makes explicit the
bittersweetness of the 'sweet science' and provides a new
theoretical framework for analysing boxing and, indeed, sport in
general. Written for a broad audience, this is important reading
for scholars and students working in the areas of philosophy and
sociology of sport and combat sport studies, as well as policy
makers, coaches, and commentators engaged in the sport of boxing.
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