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Tennis and Philosophy : What the Racket is All About /
Tennis smashed onto the worldwide athletic scene soon after its modern rules and equipment were introduced in nineteenth-century England. Exciting, competitive, and uniquely accessible to people of all ages and talent levels, tennis continues to enjoy popularity, both as a recreational activity and...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Federer as religious experience / David Foster Wallace
- Why Roger Federer is the best: or is it McEnroe? / David Baggett
- Why are all tennis films bad? / Mark R. Huston
- Excuses, excuses: inside the mind of a complainer / Kevin Kinghorn
- Authoritarian tennis parents: are their children really any worse off? / Kevin Kinghorn
- "You cannot be serious!" The ethics of rage in tennis / David Detmer
- Love-love: a fresh start at finding value and virtue in tennis / Tommy Valentini
- A court conversation / Robert R. Clewis
- Stabbing Seles: fans and fair play / Mark W. Foreman
- The "Kournikova phenomenon" / Helen Ditouras
- Losing beautifully / Mark R. Huston
- Arthur Ashe: philosopher in motion / Jeanine Weekes Schroer
- The ridiculous meets the radical in the battle of the sexes / Maureen Linker
- Friendship, rivalry, and excellence / David Baggett and Neil Delaney Jr.