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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786557403321

Autore

Farred Grant

Titolo

In Motion, At Rest [[electronic resource] ] : The Event of the Athletic Body

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014

ISBN

1-4529-4108-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

796.01

Soggetti

Badiou, Alain

Cantona, E ́ric, 1966-

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995

Derrida, Jacques

Events (Philosophy)

Human body (Philosophy)

Sports -- Philosophy

World Peace, Metta, 1979-

Zidane, Zine ́dine, 1972-

Sports - Philosophy

Social Sciences

Recreation & Sports

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction: Sport and the Event; 1. Ron Artest: The Black Body at Rest (Alain Badiou); 2. Eric Cantona: The Body in Motion (Gilles Deleuze); 3. Zinedine Zidane: Coup de Boule (Jacques Derrida); Epilogue: Being, Event, and the Philosophy of Sport; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Grant Farred takes up the event as a philosophical problem from a novel perspective, examining infamous events in sport and arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an entirely original way of thinking about it. He shows how what was inherent in the event is opened to new possibilities for understanding ontological being by



thinking about sport philosophically.