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

Ljubodrag Simonović Duci - Philosophy of Olympism
Ljubodrag Simonović, 2004
391 str.
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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.


International Olympic Committee.
Coubertin, Pierre de, -- 1863-1937.
Olympics -- History.
Olympics -- Political aspects.
Olympics -- Economic aspects.
Olympics.

INTRODUCTION
THE SPIRITUAL CLIMAT IN WHICH MODERN OLYMPISM WAS BORN..
OLYMPISM AND SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Apsolutizing the principle `Might is Right`.
Olympism and Paternalism.
Olympism and Racism..
Olympism and Pacifism..
Coubertin and Nietzsche`s `Will to Power`
OLYMPISM AND POSITIVISM
Idea of Order.
Idea of Progress
Olympism and Science.
Olympism and Reason.
Olympism and Mysticism.
MODERN AND ANTIQUE OLYMPISM
`Restoring the antique Olympic Games`.
Modern and antique Olympic Paganism.
Coubertin`s `utilitarian Pedagogy` and antique paideia....
Modern and antique `Sport`
The Body and the Mind.
Olympism and Eros
Creation of a `positive Man`.
OLYMPISM AS A POSITIVE RELIGION.
Olympism and Christianity.
Olympic Dogmatics.
Olympic `Saint Trinity`.
Olympism and the Christian Churches.
OLYMPISM AND MODERN PHYSICAL CULTURE
Coubertin and Rousseau
Coubertin and `Philanthropic Movement`
Mens fervida in corpore lacertoso.
Olympism and `Philosophy of Performance`.
OLYMPISM AND PLAY
Coubertin and Schiller.
Coubertin and Huizinga..
Coubertin and `Oasis of Happiness`
Olympism and Phenomenology of Play.
Olympism and Art...
OLYMPISM AND DEMOCRACY
Transformation of Liberalism into Authoritarianism
Olympism and the Idea of Social Justice.
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
NOTE ON THE AUTHOR


Nonfiction, Philsophy