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Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance: Skillful Striving

Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance: Skillful Striving

Description

Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance is a multi-methodological and cross-cultural examination of how we flourish holistically through performative endeavors, e.g., sports, martial and performing arts. Relying primarily on sport philosophy, value theory, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, pragmatism, and East Asian philosophies (Japanese and Chinese), it espouses thick holism. Concerned with an integrative bodymind gradually achieved through performance that aims at excellence, the process of self-cultivation proper of thick holism relies on an ecologically rich epistemic landscape where skills are coupled to virtues in pragmatic contexts. Ultimately, this process results in admirable performances and exemplary character. Japanese do (practices of self-cultivation) are prominent modes and models of such flourishing. A holistic and radically enactive approach that advances contentless capacities in lieu of representations transparently accounts for the kind of action that characterizes such expert performances. Importantly, these performer-centered endeavors unfold within communities that foster the cultivation of our abilities as lifelong quests for human excellence. Each chapter can be read independently but still forms part of a continuous argumentative and narrative thread. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

ISBN

9781138671621

Publication Date

2016

Publisher

Routledge

City

London

Disciplines

Philosophy | Philosophy of Mind | Sports Sciences

Comments

Description and cover image courtesy of Routledge.

Subject Areas

Holism; Excellence; Sports -- Philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Pragmatism

Author/Editor Bio

Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza is Professor of Philosophy at Linfield College. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Sociology of Sport from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a B.S. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

Series Information

Ethics and sport

Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance: Skillful Striving

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