Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is innovative work of the highest order, very smartly and incisively bringing onto the field two teams that very seldom meet in inter-league play: the philosophers and the sociologists of sports. But in these pages there are also crucial interventions staged in cultural studies, race theory, globalization discourse, and media studies.
In Motion, At Rest is a book that speaks to many audiences, without giving up its singular focus on the athletic body." —Jeffrey Nealon, Penn State University
"As subtle and illuminating as any of Deleuze’s disquisitions on the Wlms he discusses in his Cinema books."—Cultural Critique
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Sport and the Event
1. Ron Artest: The Black Body at Rest (Alain Badiou)2. Eric Cantona: The Body in Motion (Gilles Deleuze)3. Zinedine Zidane: Coup de Boule (Jacques Derrida)
Epilogue: Being, Event, and the Philosophy of Sport
AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
