1st Edition

Sport and Art An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport

By Andrew Edgar Copyright 2014
188 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common ground. Both are ways in which humans confront philosophical challenges, though they do this through very different media. While art deploys sensual media such as paint or sound, sport is the pursuit of a physical challenge at which the athlete may... Read more

1. Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport  2. Sport and Philosophy  3. Sportworld  4. The Birth of Sport  5. The Aesthetics of Sport  6. The Beauty of Sport  7. The Modernism of Sport  8. A Hermeneutics of Sport  9. Conclusion

Biography

Andrew Edgar is a Reader in Philosophy at Cardiff University. His teaching and research are grounded in the German philosophical tradition. Apart from a monograph on Jürgen Habermas, he has published numerous books and articles in the philosophy of health care and the philosophy of sport.