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Zusatztext highly comprehensive and stimulating ... the editor has managed to engage many of the world's leading philosophers of sport to Contribute t the volume ... This Companion is a must for any library which is supporting courses in sports studies/kinesiology. However! its readership should extend far wider than just students studying the philosophy of sport for its own sake because chapters touch upon concerns impinging upon the practice of sport form different angles and perspectives. Informationen zum Autor Cesar R. Torres is Professor in the Department of Kinesiology! Sport Studies and Physical Education at The College of Brockport! State University of New York! USA. He is a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. He has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and is a recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport . Innovative, contemporary and comprehensive guide to an important and dynamic area of contemporary philosophy and sport studies. Zusammenfassung The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport features specially commissioned essays from a team of leading international scholars. The book! by providing an overview of the advances in the philosophical understanding of sport (and related practices)! serves as a measure of the development of the philosophy of sport but it also constitutes an expression of the discipline's state of the art. The book includes a critical analysis of the historical development of philosophic ideas about sport! three essays on the research methods typically used by sport philosophers! twelve essays that address vital issues at the forefront of key research areas! as well as four essays on topics of future disciplinary concern. The book also includes a glossary of key terms and concepts! an essay on resources available to researchers and practitioners! an essay on careers opportunities in the discipline! and an extensive annotated bibliography of key literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction! Cesar R. Torres Part I: History and Development A History of Philosophic Ideas about Sport! David Lunt and Mark Dyreson Part II: Research Methodology The Philosophy of Sport and Analytic Philosophy! Scott Kretchmar The Philosophy of Sport and Continental Philosophy! Vegard Fusche Moe The Philosophy of Sport! Eastern Philosophy and Pragmatism! Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza! Koyo Fukasawa and Mizuho Takemura Part III: Current Research and Key Issues Theories of Sport! Robert L. Simon Fairness and Justice in Sport! Sigmund Loland The Ethics of Enhancing Performance! Sarah Teetzel Disability and Sport! Carwyn Jones Sport! Risk and Danger! Leslie A. Howe Sport and the Environment-Ecosophical and Metanoetical Intersections! Ron Welters The Aesthetics of Sport! Stephen Mumford Sporting Knowledge! Gunnar Breivik Sport and Ideology! Lamartine P. DaCosta Competitive Sport! Moral Development and Peace! J. S. Russell Sport! Spirituality and Religion! Simon Robinson Sport and Violence! Danny Rosenberg Part IV: Future Developments Sport and Technological Development! Alun Hardman Conceivable Horizons of Equality in Sport! Pam R. Sailors 'Spoiled Sports': Markets and the Corruption of Sport! William J. Morgan Sport Philosophy around the World! Peter M. Hopsicker and Ivo Jirásek Part V: Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts Part VI: Resources and Careers Resource Guide! Emily Ryall Careers! Charlene Weaving Part VII: The Literature The Sport Philosophy Literature: Foundations! Evoluti...
