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Farred, Grant.

In Motion, At Rest : The Event of the Athletic Body. - 1 online resource (188 pages)

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781452941080

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Badiou, Alain.
Cantona, Éric, -- 1966-.
Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995.
Derrida, Jacques.
Sports -- Philosophy.
World Peace, Metta, -- 1979-.
Zidane, Zinédine, -- 1972-.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GV706 -- .F37 2014eb

Dewey Class. No.: 796.01