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| Author | : Mark Holowchak |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : SPORTS & RECREATION |
| ISBN | : 9780773438255 |
This work is a collection of newly written essays that philosophically investigates strength, considered in its brute, physical sense.
| Author | : Todd Terry Holowchak Mark |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Human body (Philosophy) |
| ISBN | : 9780773430167 |
This collection of essays philosophically examines strength, considered in its brute, physical sense. This is the only book of its kind solely dedicated to physical strength. Each contributor has expertise in strength sports, three at the world-class level, or in an area of philosophy of sport, related to strength.
| Author | : Ved Prakash Varma |
| Publisher | : Allied Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : India |
| ISBN | : 9788177647778 |
| Author | : Mona Siddiqui |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2021-03-04 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1108608884 |
Many of the great thinkers and poets in Christianity and Islam led lives marked by personal and religious struggle. Indeed, suffering and struggle are part of the human condition and constant themes in philosophy, sociology and psychology. In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed scholar Mona Siddiqui ponders how humankind finds meaning in life during an age of uncertainty. Here, she explores the theme of human struggle through the writings of iconic figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Muhammad Ghazali, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sayyid Qutb - people who searched for meaning in the face of adversity. Considering a wide range of thinkers and literary figures, her book explores how suffering and struggle force the faithful to stretch their imagination in order to bring about powerful and prophetic movements for change. The moral and aesthetic impulse of their writings will also stimulate inter-cultural and interdisciplinary conversations on the search for meaning in an age of uncertainty.
| Author | : Susan Wendell |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1135770476 |
The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. Among the topics it addresses are who should be identified as disabled; whether disability is biomedical, social or both; what causes disability and what could 'cure' it; and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified. Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread unwillingness to accept and provide for the body's inevitable weakness.
| Author | : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9400977204 |
| Author | : Richard Tarnas |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2011-10-19 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0307804526 |
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
| Author | : Jenny Slatman |
| Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2016-01-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9048523141 |
The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes.
| Author | : Asher Price |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Basketball |
| ISBN | : 0804138036 |
The showmanship of the dunk mesmerized Price as a child, but even with his height (six foot plus) and impressive wingspan, he never pushed himself to try it. Now, approaching middle age, Asher decides to spend a year remaking his body and testing his mind as he wonders, like most adults, what untapped talent he still possesses. Along the way he dives into the history and science of one of sports' most exuberant acts, examining everything from our genetic predisposition towards jumping to the cultural role of the slam dunk. The year-long effort forces him to ask some fundamental questions about human ability and the degree to which we can actually improve ourselves, even with great determination.
| Author | : Noelle K. Brigden |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2023-05-05 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1000872866 |
This book explores strength sports as a site of political contestation and a platform for insurgent gender practices. It contributes to our understanding of key themes in the study of sport, such as feminism, power, the body and identity. Drawing together interdisciplinary work spanning political science, sociology, gender studies, and biological and cultural anthropology, the book argues that in the face of ongoing embodied precarity, strength sports have become a complex form of both resistance to, and reproduction of, patriarchy. This argument also challenges traditional understandings and definitions of “strength.” Covering recreational-level participation and elite athletics, across experiential/individual, local, national, transnational, and global scales, the book explores diverse topics such as the pregnant strength athlete, the status of trans women in strength sports, and the gendered dimensions of online fitness communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. In so doing, it traces power dynamics and the interplay among multiple oppressions. Showcasing important empirical and activist research, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in women’s sport, women’s studies, gender studies, the sociology of sport, strength and conditioning, feminist politics, or cultural studies.
