Surfing and the Philosophy of Sport

Surfing and the Philosophy of Sport uses the insights gained through an analysis of the sport of surfing to explore key questions and discourses within the philosophy of sport. As surfing has been practiced dynamically, since its beginnings as a traditional Polynesian pursuit to its current status as a counter-culture lifestyle and also a highly professionalized and commercialized sport that will be included in the Olympic Games, it presents a unique phenomenon from which to reconsider questions about the nature of sport and its role in a flourishing life and society. Daniel Brennan examines foundational issues about defining sport, sport's role in conceptualizing the good life, the aesthetic nature of sport, the place of technology in sport, the principles of Olympism and surfing's embodiment of them, and issues of institutionalized sexism in sport and the effect that might have on athletic performance.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Surfing and Sport
Chapter 2: Waves and Wipeouts in Utopia
Chapter 3: Drawing Lines on Waves; surfing and the aesthetics of sport
Chapter 4: Making Waves: Surfing and Technology
Chapter 5: Surfing's Olympian Moment
Chapter 6: Surfing like a Girl: Sexism in Surf Culture and Feminine Motility
Chapter 6: Surfing like a Girl: Sexism in Surf Culture and Feminine Motility
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Daniel Brennan is assistant professor of philosophy at Bond University.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Brennan, Brennan Daniel
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793640789
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-078-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Studies in Philosophy of Sport
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social & political philosophy, Surfing, windsurfing, water skiing, Gender studies, gender groups, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Surfing