Ebook: Sporthelden: Spitzensport in postheroischen Zeiten
Author: Karl-Heinrich Bette
- Series: Edition transcript, 3
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: transcript Verlag
- Language: German
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Contemporary analyses state the arrival of a post-heroic society: Has the heroic lost its significance? Karl-Heinrich Bette shows that the last heroic reserve of modernity is forgotten and suppressed in these descriptions: high-performance sport with its continuous production of victories and defeats, spectacular records and nerve-racking tension. Viewed from this perspective, competitions appear as artificially and serially created crisis and emergency situations that enable individuals or groups to make themselves visible to a mass audience as heroes in post-heroic times.
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