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I. Sport in the Age of Ideology
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments xi
- I. Sport in the Age of Ideology 1
- 2. The Labor-Leisure Dialectic and the Origins of Ideology 23
- 3. The Body as an Ideological Variable: Sportive Imagery of Leadership and the State 53
- 4. The Political Psychologies of the Sportive and Antisportive Temperaments 83
- 5. From Amateurism to Nihilism: Sport, Cultural Conservatism, and the Critique of Modernity 122
- 6. Nazi Sport Theory: Racial Heroism and the Critique of Sport 162
- 7. The Origins of Socialist Sport: Marxist Sport Culture in the Years of Innocence 170
- 8. Sport in the Soviet Union: Stalinization and the New Soviet Athlete 190
- 9. The Sport Culture of East Germany: Optimism and the Rationalization of the Body 201
- 10. Purism and the Flight from the Superman: The Rise and Fall of Maoist Sport 219
- 11. Toward the Abolition of "Sport": Neo-Marxist Sport Theory 232
- Notes 249
- Bibliography 285
- Index 305
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments xi
- I. Sport in the Age of Ideology 1
- 2. The Labor-Leisure Dialectic and the Origins of Ideology 23
- 3. The Body as an Ideological Variable: Sportive Imagery of Leadership and the State 53
- 4. The Political Psychologies of the Sportive and Antisportive Temperaments 83
- 5. From Amateurism to Nihilism: Sport, Cultural Conservatism, and the Critique of Modernity 122
- 6. Nazi Sport Theory: Racial Heroism and the Critique of Sport 162
- 7. The Origins of Socialist Sport: Marxist Sport Culture in the Years of Innocence 170
- 8. Sport in the Soviet Union: Stalinization and the New Soviet Athlete 190
- 9. The Sport Culture of East Germany: Optimism and the Rationalization of the Body 201
- 10. Purism and the Flight from the Superman: The Rise and Fall of Maoist Sport 219
- 11. Toward the Abolition of "Sport": Neo-Marxist Sport Theory 232
- Notes 249
- Bibliography 285
- Index 305