株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness.
商品詳細
Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness.
・ISBN 978-0-8014-1342-1 hard US$ 58.95
￥13,811.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
| 著者・編者 | Ong, Walter J., |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (Cornell University Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 1981 |
| ページ数 | 238 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-68958＞ |
解説
What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male agonistic drive finds an outlet in games as divergent as football and chess.
Demonstrating the importance of contest in biological evolution and in the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, Ong also shows how adversary procedure has affected social, linguistic, and intellectual history. He discusses shifting patterns of contest in such arenas as spectator sports, politics, business, academia, and religion. Human beings' internalization of agonistic drives, he concludes, can foster the deeper discovery of the self and of distinctively human freedom.