Phenomenological Approaches to Sport [Paperback]

The study of sport is often thought of simply in terms of the sport sciences. This book explains how a phenomenological approach is capable of revealing the nature and meanings of sport in ways that are beyond the reach of the sciences and how the very concepts required by sport science stand in need of philosophical explanation. The book has a 'didactic' intention, seeking to present and discuss ideas and tools developed in the phenomenological tradition in order to illuminate issues in sport, in such a way as to be understandable for those without any previous knowledge or background.

There are clear and straightforward accounts of the ideas of central thinkers, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Pato1ka, and applications of central ideas to the analysis of particular issues, such as the nature of risk sports, the feint in football, the problem of the instant replay, the role of the sport psychologist, the idea of 'bodily perception', and the concept of 'transhumanism' in relation to performance enhancement.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

1. An Introduction to the Phenomenological Study of Sport  Irena Mart?nkov? and Jim Parry  2. From Phenomenology to Existentialism  Philosophical Approaches Towards Sport  Arno M?ller  3. Anthropos as Kinanthropos: Heidegger and Patocka on Human Movement  Irena Mart?nkov?  4. Sartre on Human Nature: Humanness, Transhumanism and Performance-Enhancement  Leon Culbertson  5. Skilled Coping and Sport: Promises of Phenomenology  Bryan Hogeveen  6. Merleau-Ponty Meets Kretchmar: Sweet Tensions of Embodied Learning  ?yvind F. Standaland Vegard F. Moe  7. Sweet Tension and its Phenomenological Dlós