Sport and Political Ideology Hoberman Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780292775886

Sport and Political IdeologyAuthor(s): John Hoberman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292775886, 978-0292775886\nSynopsis\nAcross the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however, varies distinctively and characteristically with the ideology-a phenomenon John Hoberman terms \""ideological differentiation.\"" Taking this phenomenon as its point of departure, this provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of the twentieth century as distinct expressions of political doctrine. \n\n Hoberman argues that a political ideology's interpretation of sport is shaped in part by the value it assigns to work and play as modes of experience; the political anthropologies of right and left can be distinguished by examining their resistance to-or affinity for-sportive imagery of their leaders and of .