ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2004
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Engleski

Ljubodrag Simonović Duci - Philosophy of Olympism
Ljubodrag Simonović, 2004
391 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: dobro, zasečen predlist, potpis na predlistu i na zadnjoj strani.

The twentieth century is behind us. If we tried to determine the distinctive phenomena of that historical period, sport would surely take a prominent place. It acquired the same significance that religion had in the Middle Ages: the Olympic Games became the most important festivity of the modern world and the Olympic idea its `humanistic` gospel. Modern Olympic paganism is the form in which capitalism wiped out Christianity (as well as other religions) and became the chief ideological instrument for integrating people into the spiritual orbit of capitalism. The calendar of leading sports manifestations assumed the role of religious calendars and became a spiritual pivot, while the stadium became the most important cult venue of the modern world. Sport is not only an `ideological curtain concealing the real evil` (Adorno), it is the bourgeois means of erasing the cultural traces of mankind and destroying the emancipatory heritage of civil society. The basic aim of modern olympism is not to transform the world into a cultural community of nations, but to turn it into a `civilized` menagerie. Stadiums have become modern concentration camps in which the hope of a better world is being destroyed and modern hordes of barbarians are being generated. Sport is not only the `opium for a socially structured defect` and thus `one of the chief ways of escaping` from reality (Fromm), but also a way of degenerating man: a sports spectacle is a ritual through which the capitalist `holy spirit` inseminates people turning them into capitalistically transmuted animals.


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Nonfiction, Philsophy