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On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science

On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science

Lewandowski, Joseph D.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society

BoxingSports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032052368
ISBN13: 9781032052366
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2023
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book is a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary boxing. It broadens and deepens our understanding of the empirically and normatively entwined complexities of a sport that is often misunderstood and all too easily reduced to stereotypes.

Moving between and among work in ethnography, sociology, urban studies and, especially, the philosophy of sport, and drawing on research in boxing gyms in the US, the book presents a stereoscopic view of professional boxing as both situated cultural practice and formalized competitive sport. It takes us inside and outside the ring in discussions of the cultural embeddedness of boxing and boxing gyms, the formation of pugilistic selfhood and 'boxer cool', the nature and function of combat sport violence and sparring, and the aesthetics and ethics of cornering a boxing match. With its interdisciplinary focus on the empirical and normative dimensions of professional pugilism, On Boxing makes explicit the bittersweetness of the 'sweet science' and provides a new theoretical framework for analysing boxing and, indeed, sport in general.

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