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In motion, at rest : the event of the athletic body
- Title
- In motion, at rest : the event of the athletic body / Grant Farred.
- Author
- Farred, Grant
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
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- Description
- 178 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- The author examines three infamous events in sport, arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an entirely original way of thinking about it.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : sport and the event -- Ron Artest : the Black body at rest (Alain Badiou) -- Eric Cantona : the body in motion (Gilles Deleuze) -- Zinedine Zidane : coup de boule (Jacques Derrida) -- Epilogue : being, event, and the philosophy of sport.
- Call Number
- Sc D 14-1317
- ISBN
- 9780816650231 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0816650233 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816650248 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0816650241 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013028362
- OCLC
- 862148712
- Author
- Farred, Grant, author.
- Title
- In motion, at rest : the event of the athletic body / Grant Farred.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 14-1317