1st Edition

Kinetic Beauty The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport

By Jason Holt Copyright 2020
136 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

Introduction: Pregame

1. Five-Level Analysis

2. Grace Notes

3. Performer Aesthetics

4. Design Matters

5. Aesthetic Significance

6. Aesthetic Bias

7. Aesthetic Sports

8. Sport in Art

9. Sport as Art

10. Dance as Sport

 

Biography



Jason Holt is Professor of Kinesiology at Acadia University, Canada.

Outstanding Research Project Award, Faculty of Professional Studies, Acadia University