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Book SynopsisSports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape societies and individuals. The essays offer critical new insights and historical case studies from historians, theorists, literature scholars, and athletes.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I: Introduction Introduction: The Allure of Sports John Zilcosky Part II: Theoretical Perspectives 1. Sports/Allure Grant Farred 2. "Allure" Constrained by "Ethics"? How Athletic Events Have Engaged Their Spectators Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Part III: The Ancient World 3. The Fading Allure of Greek Athletics Sophie Remijsen 4. Wrestling, or the Art of Disentangling Bodies John Zilcosky 5. The Allure and Ethics of Ancient Aesthetics: Hellenism in the Modern Olympic Movement Charles Stocking Part IV: Modern Europe 6. Attractive or Repugnant? Foot Races in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Britain Rebekka Von Mallinckrodt 7. A Well-Trained Community: Gymnastics for the German Nation Wolf Kittler 8. Importing a German Kampfsport: The Reception and Practice of Japanese Martial Arts in Interwar Germany Sarah Panzer 9. The Ethics and Allure of the Foul in Football Annette Vowinckel Part V: Coda 10. Swimming Karin Helmstaedt Contributors Index
