Joseph D Lewandowski

On Boxing (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary boxing. It broadens and deepens our understanding of the empirically and normatively entwined complexities of a sport that is often misunderstood and all too easily reduced to stereotypes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000510430
• Artikelnr.: 62633013

Autorenporträt

Joseph D Lewandowski is a writer, researcher, educator, and avid pugilist. A former holder of the Fulbright Masaryk Distinguished Chair in Social Studies, he currently serves as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Boxing and Culture
1. Boxing and Urban Culture
2. Pugilistic Selfhood and Structural Violence
3. Boxer Cool
4. Boxing and Social Capital?
5. The Marginality of Urban Boxing Clubs
Part II: Boxing and Philosophy
6. Outline of a Constraint Theory of Sport
7. Boxing as the Bittersweet Science of Constraints
8. Combat Sport Violence and Sparring
9. Fight Plan Aesthetics
10. Cornerman Ethics
Conclusion