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Sport and Moral Conflict A Conventionalist Theory WILLIAM J. MORGAN
What is the purpose of sport, and how are ethical conceptions of sport shaped by the answers to this question? In Sport and Moral Conflict, William Morgan investigates, examining sport as a moral crucible that puts athletes in competitive, emotionally charged situations where fairness and equality are contested alongside accomplishment.Morgan looks at the modern Olympics—from 1906 Athens to 1924 Paris, when the Games reached international prestige — in order to highlight the debate about athletic excellence and the amateur-professional divide. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2020 280pp 9781439915400 £26.99 PB now £18.89
The Burden of Overrepresentation
Race, Sport, and Philosophy GRANT FARRED
The Burden of Overrepresentation artfully explores three curious racial moments in sport: Jackie Robinson’s expletive at a Dodgers spring training game; the transformation of a formality into an event at the 1995 rugby World Cup; and a spectral moment at the 2010 World Cup. Farred examines the connotations through the lenses of race, politics, memory, inheritance and conciliation. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2018 258pp 9781439911433 £26.99 PB now £18.89
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Entre Nous
Between the World Cup and Me GRANT FARRED
Grant Farred examines the careers of international soccer stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, separation, and belonging. Farred demonstrates that approaching sports philosophically offers particularly insightful means of understanding the nature of being in the world, thereby opening new paths for exploring how the self is constituted in its relation to the other. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2019 4 illus. 296pp 9781478004707 £20.99 PB now £14.69
The Eternal Present of Sport
Rethinking Sport and Religion DANIEL A. GRANO
In his persuasive study The Eternal Present of Sport, Daniel Grano rethinks the sport-religion relationship by positioning sport as a source of theological trouble. Focusing on bodies, time, movement, and memory, he demonstrates how negative theology can be practically and theoretically useful as a critique of elite televised sport. Grano asserts that it is precisely through sport's highest religious ideals that controversies are taking shape and constituting points of political and social rupture. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2017 286pp 9781439912805 £26.99 PB now £18.89