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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 6 April 2010
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252063619
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 229x152x25 mm
- Weight 426 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
The degradation of modern sport--its commercialization, trivialization, widespread cheating, cult of athletic stars and celebrities, and manipulation by the media--has led to calls for its transformation. William J. Morgan constructs a critical theory of sport that shores up the weak arguments of past attempts and points a way forward to making sport more humane, compelling, and substantive. Drawing on the work of social theorists, Morgan challenges scholars and fans alike to explore new spaces in sport culture and imagine the rich cultural and political possibilities to be found in the pastimes we follow with such passion.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1 THE CRITIQUE
ONE The New Left Theory of Sport 19
TWO Hegemony Theory of Sport 60
THREE The Corruption of Sport and Its Ideological Distortion 128
2 THE RECONSTRUCTED THEORY
FOUR The Path to a Critical Theory of Sport: Transcendent or Immanent? 179
FIVE A Reconstructed Critical Theory of Sport: Social Criticism with a Liberal Twist 204
Postscript: Sport in the Larger Scheme of Things 253
Index 265
