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Sport and Political Ideology

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ISBN-10: 0292775881

ISBN-13: 9780292775886

Edition: 1984

Authors: John Hoberman

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Across the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however, varies distinctively and characteristically with the ideology—a phenomenon John Hoberman terms "ideological differentiation." Taking this phenomenon as its point of departure, this provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of the twentieth century as distinct expressions of political doctrine.Hoberman argues that a political ideology's interpretation of sport is shaped in part by the value it assigns to work and play as modes of experience; the political anthropologies of right and left can be distinguished by…    
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Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 7/1/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990