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Crowds: The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity

Crowds: The Stadium as a Ritual of Intensity

Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich

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PhilosophySports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1503628833
ISBN13: 9781503628830
Publisher: Stanford Briefs
Published: May 11 2021
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although the masses have long held a thoroughly bad reputation in politics and culture, literary critic and avid sports fan Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht finds powerful, as yet unexplored reasons to sing the praises of crowds. Drawing on his experiences as a spectator in the stadiums of South America, Germany, and the US, Gumbrecht presents the stadium as a ritual of intensity, thereby offering a different lens through which we might capture and even appreciate the dynamic of the masses.

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