Barbaric Sport - A Global Plague

Informationen zum Autor Marc Perelman trained as an architect. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Universities. His twenty-five books, written alone or in collaboration, include: Le football, une peste émotionnelle (with Jean-Marie Brohm) ; L'ère des stades ; L'Esthétique du livre (with Alain Milon). Klappentext A timely, searing attack on sport as a savage spectacle, and new 'opium of the people,' published in the run up to the Olympics. Zusammenfassung Globalized sport as savage spectacle and "opium of the people".

Product details

• Authors: Marc Perelman, Perelman Marc
• Assisted by: John Howe (Translation), David Macey (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9781844678594
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-859-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure