Sport and Political Ideology / / John Hoberman.
Across the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however, varies distinctively and characteristically with the ideology—a phenomenon John Hoberman terms "ideological differentiation." Ta...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. Sport in the Age of Ideology
- 2. The Labor-Leisure Dialectic and the Origins of Ideology
- 3. The Body as an Ideological Variable: Sportive Imagery of Leadership and the State
- 4. The Political Psychologies of the Sportive and Antisportive Temperaments
- 5. From Amateurism to Nihilism: Sport, Cultural Conservatism, and the Critique of Modernity
- 6. Nazi Sport Theory: Racial Heroism and the Critique of Sport
- 7. The Origins of Socialist Sport: Marxist Sport Culture in the Years of Innocence
- 8. Sport in the Soviet Union: Stalinization and the New Soviet Athlete
- 9. The Sport Culture of East Germany: Optimism and the Rationalization of the Body
- 10. Purism and the Flight from the Superman: The Rise and Fall of Maoist Sport
- 11. Toward the Abolition of "Sport": Neo-Marxist Sport Theory
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index