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In praise of athletic beauty /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Sports > Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Sports spectators.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Everyfan
  • Definitions
  • Praise, beauty, athletics
  • Discontinuities
  • Demigods, gladiators, knights
  • Ruffians, sportsmen, olympians, customers
  • Fascinations
  • Bodies, suffering, grace, tools, forms, plays, timing
  • Gratitude
  • Watching, waste.