Somaesthetics and sport / / edited by Andrew Edgar.

• Superior document: Studies in somaesthetics ; Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Edgar, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in somaesthetics ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 pages)

Somaesthetics and Sport brings together a diverse set of explorations into the embodied experience of watching and playing sport. Sport can at once be a source of sensual beauty and pleasure, and also of pain and anguish; spectators can both celebrate and glorify athletes, but also expect certain forms of behaviour, and intentionally or otherwise police the movements of their bodies; sport and physical exercise can improve our health and increase the self-awareness of our abilities and limitations, but they also help us to shape our sense of what it means to live a good life.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Andrew Edgar -- 1 A Dove in Flight Metaphysical Shackles, Transformative Soaring, and Sportive Somaesthetics -- Jes ú s Ilund á in-Agurruza -- 2 Somaesthetics and Sport? -- Graham McFee -- 3 Sport and the Body An Aesthetic Inquiry -- William J . Morgan -- 4 Changing Perceptions of Beautiful Bodies The Athletic Agency Model -- Peg Brand Weiser -- 5 The Sachin Mandala Somaesthetic Construction of a Cricket Legend -- Vinod Balakrishnan -- 6 Somaesthetics of the Grunt Policing Femininity in the Soundscapes of Women's Professional Tennis -- Anita Stahl -- 7 Somatic Reflection during Skilled Action -- John Toner and Barbara Gail Montero -- 8 Yoga as World Literature Somaesthetic Ekphrasis and (Mis)Translation -- Claire Solomon -- 9 Difficult Activities - Difficult Experiences -- Matti Tainio -- 10 Sport and Pain -- Andrew Edgar -- Index.