Chapters in this book

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