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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v39.i11.records.utf8:12786802:1512
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01512nam a22002898a 4500
001 2011007245
003 DLC
005 20110314162707.0
008 110218s2011 mdu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011007245
020 $a9780739148815 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGV706$b.R437 2011
082 00 $a796.01$222
100 1 $aReid, Heather Lynne,$d1963-
245 10 $aAretism :$ban ancient sports philosophy for the modern sports world /$cHeather L. Reid and M. Andrew Holowchak.
260 $aLanham, Md. :$bLexington Books,$cc2011.
263 $a1106
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe roots of competitive sport -- Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment sport -- Compensatory athleticism -- Sport propagandized -- Sport commodified -- The martial/commercial model -- Drugs and competitive sport -- Problems of performance enhancement -- Gender, aggression, and violence -- Sport by the numbers -- Sensationalism and ego-puffing -- The aesthetic/recreational model -- Aesthetic spectacle -- Playful integrity -- The aesthetics of journeying -- Beauty as unity -- Economy of performance -- The aretic model -- Aretism and values -- Aretism and education -- Aretism and society -- Is sport a good?.
650 0 $aSports$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aPhysical fitness$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aSports$xSociological aspects.
650 0 $aCompetition (Psychology)
700 1 $aHolowchak, Mark,$d1958-