Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. PART I. Introduction
5. Introduction: The Allure of Sports 3
6. PART II. Theoretical Perspectives
7. 1. Sports/Allure 21
8. 2. “Allure” Constrained by “Ethics”? How Athletic Events Have Engaged Their Spectators 36
9. PART III. The Ancient World
10. 3. The Fading Allure of Greek Athletics 55
11. 4. Wrestling, or the Art of Disentangling Bodies 79
12. 5. The Allure and Ethics of Ancient Aesthetics: Hellenism in the Modern Olympic Movement 119
13. PART IV. Modern Europe
14. 6. Attractive or Repugnant? Foot Races in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Britain 145
15. 7. A Well-Trained Community: Gymnastics for the German Nation 168
16. 8. Importing a German Kampfsport: The Reception and Practice of Japanese Martial Arts in Interwar Germany 202
17. 9. The Ethics and Allure of the Foul in Football 225
18. PART V. Coda
19. 10. Swimming 245
20. Contributors 255
21. Index 257