Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport.

By:

Kaag, John J, 1979-

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (210 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780739178416
0739178415
1299771696
9781299771697

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport.DDC classification:

796.01

LOC classification:

GV706 .P65 2013

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Contents:

Introduction: Pragmatism and the Seasoned Practitioner; Chapter One: Process and the Sport Experience; Chapter Two: Peircean Reflections on the Personality of a Fútbol Club; Chapter Three: Paddling in the Stream of Consciousness: Describing the Movement of Jamesian Inquiry; Chapter Four: Running in Place: Significance on the Treadmill?; Chapter Five: Where Should LeBron's Loyalty Lie? Where Should Ours?; Chapter Six: Agapastic Coaching: Charles Peirce, Coaching Philosophy, and Theories of Evolution.

Chapter Seven: Gender, Sports, and the Ethics of Teammates: Toward an Outline of a Philosophy of Sport in the American GrainChapter Eight: Dick Butkus, Pragmatism, and Performance Art; Chapter Nine: Toward a Somatic Sport Feminism; Chapter Ten: Living the Injury: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Finding Meaning; Chapter Eleven: Deweyan Pragmatism and Self-Cultivation; Selected Bibliography; Index.

Summary: The contributors to Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport argue that American pragmatism is particularly well suited analyze the experience and development of sport activities. This volume will be a valuable resource in any philosophy of sport class (undergraduate or graduate) or in a course on pragmatism; it will also be appropriate for kinesiology students. It will give readers a good sense of the themes in the American philosophical tradition as well as those in the burgeoning field of the philosophy of sport.>

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The contributors to Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport argue that American pragmatism is particularly well suited analyze the experience and development of sport activities. This volume will be a valuable resource in any philosophy of sport class (undergraduate or graduate) or in a course on pragmatism; it will also be appropriate for kinesiology students. It will give readers a good sense of the themes in the American philosophical tradition as well as those in the burgeoning field of the philosophy of sport.>