Somaesthetics and Sport

Download or read book Somaesthetics and Sport written by Andrew Edgar and published by Studies in Somaesthetics. This book was released on 2022 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somaesthetics and Sport brings together a diverse set of explorations into the embodied experience of watching and playing sport. Sport can at once be a source of sensual beauty and pleasure, and also of pain and anguish; spectators can at once celebrate and glorify athletes, but also expect certain forms of behaviour, and intentionally or otherwise police the movements of their bodies; sport and physical exercise can improve our health and increase the self-awareness of our abilities and limitations, but they also help us to shape our sense of what it means to live a good life"--