Critical views about sports in the late Nineteenth Century
Autor: | Gabriel Angelotti Pasteur |
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Sprache: | Spanisch |
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2014 |
Quelle: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
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http://revistas.usergioarboleda.edu.co/index.php/ccsh/article/view/183/167 https://doaj.org/toc/1657-8953 1657-8953 https://doaj.org/article/749196d3a2be4c50a42dfb43a691b0a7 https://doaj.org/article/749196d3a2be4c50a42dfb43a691b0a7 |
Erfassungsnummer: | ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:749196d3a2be4c50a42dfb43a691b0a7 |
Zusammenfassung
This paper presents and analyzes the criticisms made by intellectuals of the nineteenth century towards sports. From different fields of knowledge (evolutionary philosophy, anthropology and economics) Herbert Spencer (1860/1904), Edward Tylor (1881/1973) and Thorstein Veblen (1899/2005) agreed to question the primacy of sports over traditional practices, rituals and folk. These authors, without reaching the ends of the luddites respect of industrial machines, extolled the unfavorable aspects of physical exercises, planting a seed of doubt that continues to this day. The importance of knowing these arguments lies in the way they faced the sporting phenomenon when it began to be institutionalized in a new set of corporal, transformative exercises and apparently a generator of fitness and health