Outline of Mimesis, Honor and Dignity in Modern Sport
A Commentary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12966309 |
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| Authors | Ejgil Jespersen (0000-0003-4512-4886, Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-66 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Physical Culture and Sport Studies and Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1899-4849 • E-ISSN: 2081-2221 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.2478/pcssr-2019-0013 |
| OpenAlex | W2951211639 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
When reading the masterpiece about “The Agon Motif” by John W. Loy and W. Robert Morford (2019), I was struck by their recurrent reference to the pursuit of honor in agonal sport contests, as it has become common sense to replace honor with dignity in modernity. I take the German social-philosopher Axel Honneth (1995) as a prime example of spelling out the replacement of honor with dignity in what he names “the struggle for recognition”. In a historical perspective, however, it looks like, that dignity can be understood as a distribution of honor rather than as an oppositional concept of honor. Recognition should not only be conceptualized at the categorical level, but also understood in terms of ‘comparative recognition’, which sorts members of a group into an intra-group hierarchy based on their relative merits and, thereby, pave the way for self-esteem (Mark, 2014). Furthermore, Honneth (2008) develops his concept of recognition to a two-level one by including a primordial recognition in terms of mimesis based upon his former concept of basic self-confidence. It is a kind of elementary responsiveness, which always and necessarily contains an element of involuntary openness or devotedness in the bodily-affective sphere. Therefore, I suggest taking mimesis as the precondition of honor into account and understanding dignity as a distribution of honor in the institution of modern sport
Dignity · Epistemology · Honor · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Computer Science · Doping in Sports · Law · Philosophy · Physical education and sports games research · Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society
The struggle for recognition
Background Practices
The Playing Fields of Eton
Kant's Doctrine of Right
Reification
The Embodied Nature of Autistic Learning
Critical Theory and the Two-Level Account of Recognition - Towards a New Foundation
The Duel in European History
Recognition and Honor
The Agon Motif
On the obsolecence of the concept of honor
| Highly cited | No |
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