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Book SynopsisSomaesthetics and Sport brings together a diverse set of explorations into the embodied experience of watching and playing sport. Sport can at once be a source of sensual beauty and pleasure, and also of pain and anguish; spectators can both celebrate and glorify athletes, but also expect certain forms of behaviour, and intentionally or otherwise police the movements of their bodies; sport and physical exercise can improve our health and increase the self-awareness of our abilities and limitations, but they also help us to shape our sense of what it means to live a good life.
Trade Review“The ten essays collected in Somaesthetics and Sport, edited by Andrew Edgar and published as part of Brill’s book series Studies in Somaesthetics, show us the many ways the interdisciplinary project of somaesthetics can inspire and reinvigorate the aesthetics of sport... Somaesthetics and Sport is a multifaceted collection of essays: Shusterman’s theoretical framework is robust enough to lend unity to the volume, but it mostly functions as a springboard for the individual papers, never suffocating their theoretical explorations or making the book repetitive or a boring read. The ten essays also communicate with one another through certain recurring notions” - Botond Csuka, in: Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (29 January 2023)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Andrew Edgar 1 A Dove in Flight Metaphysical Shackles, Transformative Soaring, and Sportive Somaesthetics Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza 2 Somaesthetics and Sport? Graham McFee 3 Sport and the Body An Aesthetic Inquiry William J. Morgan 4 Changing Perceptions of Beautiful Bodies The Athletic Agency Model Peg Brand Weiser 5 The Sachin Mandala Somaesthetic Construction of a Cricket Legend Vinod Balakrishnan 6 Somaesthetics of the Grunt Policing Femininity in the Soundscapes of Women’s Professional Tennis Anita Stahl 7 Somatic Reflection during Skilled Action John Toner and Barbara Gail Montero 8 Yoga as World Literature Somaesthetic Ekphrasis and (Mis)Translation Claire Solomon 9 Difficult Activities – Difficult Experiences Matti Tainio 10 Sport and Pain Andrew Edgar Index
