In praise of athletic beauty
By: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Sports -- Philosophy.; Aesthetics.; Sports spectators.
Table of contents: title: Everyfan; title: Definitions; title: Praise, beauty, athletics; title: Discontinuities; title: Demigods, gladiators, knights; title: Ruffians, sportsmen; title: Olympians, customers; title: Fascinations; title: Bodies, suffering, grace, tools; title: Forms, plays, timing; title: Gratitude; title: Watching, waste.