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Kinetic Beauty : The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holt, Jason, 1971-
- Series:
- Ethics and sport.
- Ethics and sport
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Philosophy.
- Sports.
- Movement, Aesthetics of.
- Sports--Physiological aspects.
- Sports sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (135 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2020.
- Summary:
- Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport. Kinetic Beauty offers a comprehensive, principled, pluralist introduction to the philosophical aesthetics of sport. The book tackles a wide variety of issues in the philosophical aesthetics of sport, proposing a five-level analysis that coordinates extant scholarship on the same conceptual map, reveals gaps in the literature, and motivates a fresh perspective on stubborn debates and novel topics in the field (for example, the aesthetic experience of athletes, aesthetic biases in sport, the paradox of sport fiction, and whether dance can be sport). This is an excellent resource for professors and students in the philosophy of sport, sport aesthetics, general aesthetics, and the philosophy of art. It is also a fascinating read for those working in kinesiology, sport studies, philosophy, art, and aesthetics.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: pregame
- 1 Five-level analysis
- Level 1: physique
- Level 2: movement
- Level 3: performance
- Level 4: framework
- Level 5: significance
- Payoff and objections
- 2 Grace notes
- The grace debate
- Comments and proposal
- Other properties
- 3 Performer aesthetics
- Skillful play
- Being in the zone
- Proprioceptive aesthetics
- 4 Design matters
- Game design
- Types of sport
- Other designs, other frames
- 5 Aesthetic significance
- Drama and representation
- Aesthetic-moral interaction
- Purist, partisan, and other dramatis personae
- 6 Aesthetic bias
- Preference or bias?
- Technique and physique
- Aesthetic injustice
- 7 Aesthetic sports
- The purposive/aesthetic distinction
- Game status
- The subjectivity problem
- 8 Sport in art
- Frozen movement
- Sports on film
- The paradox of sport fiction
- 9 Sport as art
- Framing the debate
- The 'Bolero' burden
- Dance as sport
- The artform question
- 10 Dance as sport
- Categorizing dance
- Dance as art
- The sportification question
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-000-75813-3
- 0-429-32043-4
- 9780429320439
- OCLC:
- 1127922593
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