Phenomenological Approaches to Sport

This book explains how a phenomenological approach  is capable of revealing the nature and meanings of sport in ways that are beyond the reach of the sciences. It has a ''didactic'' intention - to present and discuss ideas and tools developed in the phenomenological tradition in order to illuminate issues in sport, so as to be  understandable for those without any previous knowledge or background.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

There are clear and straightforward accounts of the ideas of central thinkers, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Patočka, and applications of central ideas to the analysis of particular issues, such as the nature of risk sports, the feint in football, the problem of the instant replay, the role of the sport psychologist, the idea of ''bodily perception'', and the concept of ''transhumanism'' in relation to performance enhancement.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.