Incredulity Toward Metanarratives' and Normative Suicide

A Critique of Postmodernist Drift in Critical Sport Theory

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2379360
AutoresWilliam J Morgan (Cultural Studies Unit, University of Tennessee, 1914 Andy Holt Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-2700 /U.S.A., autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen30
Número1
Páginas25-44
Fecha de publicación1995-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269029503000102
OpenAlexW2046364265
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas18

I argue here against the increasing preoccupation with postmodern motifs evident in contemporary critical treatments of sport. My main gripe with the incorporation of these postmodern themes into critical analyses of sport has to do with their signature attempt to displace normative evaluation and argumentation in favor of the partisan championing of the beliefs of select 'marginalized' social groups. I argue that it is this hostility to reason- giving and rational accountability that gets postmodern theorists of sport into trouble, and that jeopardizes the social criticism of sport

Argumentation theory · Critical theory · Criticism · Epistemology · Normative · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Social criticism · Sociology · Doping in Sports · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society