The roots of competitive sport -- Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment sport -- Compensatory athleticism -- Sport propagandized -- Sport commodified -- The martial/commercial model -- Drugs and competitive sport -- Problems of performance enhancement -- Gender, aggression, and violence -- Sport by the numbers -- Sensationalism and ego-puffing -- The aesthetic/recreational model -- Aesthetic spectacle -- Playful integrity -- The aesthetics of journeying -- Beauty as unity -- Economy of performance -- The aretic model -- Aretism and values -- Aretism and education -- Aretism and society -- Is sport a good?.
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