Incredulity Toward Metanarratives' and Normative Suicide

A Critique of Postmodernist Drift in Critical Sport Theory

Bibliographic Data

ID2379360
AuthorsWilliam J Morgan (Cultural Studies Unit, University of Tennessee, 1914 Andy Holt Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-2700 /U.S.A., corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume30
Issue1
Pages25-44
Publication date1995-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269029503000102
OpenAlexW2046364265
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

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