What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the
fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don
Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J.
Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into
the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in
which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male
agonistic drive finds an outlet in games as divergent as football
and chess.
Demonstrating the importance of contest in biological evolution
and in the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, Ong also
shows how adversary procedure has affected social, linguistic, and
intellectual history. He discusses shifting patterns of contest in
such arenas as spectator sports, politics, business, academia, and
religion. Human beings' internalization of agonistic drives, he
concludes, can foster the deeper discovery of the self and of
distinctively human freedom.
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