Abstract

The volume is connected with the results of the reflection on values and cultural patterns present in sport. The included papers have been written within the framework of the international research participated by partners form Austria, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Russia and Poland. The texts included in the book have mainly complementary and comparative, theoretical and empirical, sociological and philosophical character. There are also papers of the pedagogical tone and those concerning the area of sports management. The methodological foundation of these texts is constituted by theories and axiological categories. So it is possible to point out sources, meanings, formations and transformations of various values, archetypes and cultural patterns accompanying various forms of sport. The monograph, regarding a smaller or greater level of generality of the characterised issues, has been divided into two parts. The first of them, entitled "Sport values in the context of European culture", embraces texts presenting the basic axiological issues of sport in the context fo Western culture. They have been considered from the viewpoints typical of philosophy, sociology, pedagogy and ideology. The second part of the volume, entitled "Different faces and patterns of sport", pays greater attention to detailed aspects connected, above all, with a country where a given form of sport is practised and a kind of a researched discipline. It refers, e.g., to the texts concerning Japan, Slovakia or Poland, or specific forms of sports, such as martial arts, extreme sports or competition participation of amateur and professional athletes. The importance of the mass media and organisational problems of sports management have also been stressed in this part of the volume. The authors and their topics are: Part I: Sport values in the context of European culture. 1. Kosiewicz, J.: Sport in the light of social and philosophical values (introduction). 2. Kosiwicz, J.: Philosophical and axiological aspects of physical culture and sport. 3. Weiss, O.: Social recognition in sport. 4. Hodan, B.: European integrational processes - universal and particular values and tendencies in the development of physical culture. 5. Foldesi, G.S.: Sport and the European integration: the Hungarian case. 6. Wanat, S.: Physical culture in the hierarchy of values - the situation in Poland in the eve of the systemic transformation. 7. Krawczyk, Z.: Fundamental values of the European culture and the development of tourism. 8. Zielinski, K.: The patterns of relations between an educator and a pupil in the light of the philosophy of dialogue. 9. Pawlucki, A.: Ideological and pedagogical context of student's evaluation in physical education. 10. Kosiewicz, J.: Reflection on the pedagogy of sport. Part II: Different faces and patterns of sport. 11. Jirásek, I.: Ontology of experience and extreme sports. 12. Tokarski, S.: Paradox of martial arts of central Asia - Westerns patterns of expansion and Eastern values. 13. Obodynski, K.; Cynarski, W.: Asian martial arts in the process of global cultural exchanges. 14. Obodynski, K.; Cynarski, W.: The ascetic pattern of the body culture in the Japanese ways of non-aggression. 15. Fialová, L.: Quality of life, sport and gender. 16. Leska, D.: Sport as a value in the contemporary period of development in the Slovak Republic. 17. Mosz, J.; Jankowski, K.: The way to sport - sport in the area of mass culture. 18. Lenartowicz, M.; Rymarczyk, P.: Sport identity of Polish professional and amateur athletes pilot study. 19. Smolen, A.: Axiological and teleological problems in sport organization management. 20. Kosiewicz, J.: Research project: Values and cultural models in sport - complementary and comparative research. Introduction und Inhaltsverzeichnis