Sporthelden : Spitzensport in postheroischen Zeiten /
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 defeat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | German |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag,
[2019]
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| Summary: | 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 Gegenwartsdiagnosen zufolge sind wir Zeugen des Übergangs zu einer postheroischen Gesellschaft: Hat die Gesellschaft das Interesse an Heldentum wirklich komplett verloren?Karl-Heinrich Bette zeigt, dass das zentrale Heldenreservat der Moderne in diesen Beschreibungen vergessen und unterschlagen wird: der Spitzensport mit seiner Dauerproduktion von Siegen und Niederlagen, von spektakulären Rekorden und nervenzehrender Spannung. Wettkämpfe erscheinen in einer alternativen Deutung als künstlich und seriell hergestellte Krisen- und Notsituationen, die Personen oder Gruppen in die Lage versetzen, sich in postheroischen Zeiten vor einem Massenpublikum als Helden darzustellen |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 pages) Issued also in printing |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web |
| ISBN: | 9783839446331 |
| Access: | Restricted for use by site license. |