Mimesis, Metaphor, and Sports' Liturgical Constitution
Ricoeurian and Augustinian Contributions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3559910 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reuben Hoetmer (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1329 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel14101329 |
| OpenAlex | W4387875716 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Several scholars have observed the constructive possibilities in approaching sport as cultural liturgy. In what follows, I turn to hermeneutic resources in Paul Ricoeur and Augustine to elucidate the means of sports' liturgical appropriation and the capacity of this appropriation to mediate values of ideological and religious significance. Drawing on Ricoeur's analysis of Aristotelian mimesis, I approach sport as embodied metaphor and so locate metaphor as a central problem in sport hermeneutics. Following Ricoeur, I address this problem primarily by way of the 'surplus of meaning' within metaphor and its reference, and the role of Wittgensteinian 'seeing-as' in metaphor's interpretation. Following Augustine, I observe the pivotal roles of desire and tradition within 'ways of seeing' and their outworkings in Augustine's liturgical interpretation of ancient spectacles. Translating these considerations into sport, I argue that sport's liturgical appropriation similarly proceeds through 'ways of seeing' or experiencing the embodied metaphor of sport, and that these ways are deeply informed by particular desires and cultural and ideological traditions
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Constitution · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Ideology · Linguistics · Liturgy · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Doping in Sports · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Philosophy · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
Key Concepts in Sports Studies
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Animation, Sport and Culture
The Rites of Men
Putting On Virtue
Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice
Sport and Political Ideology
Gateways to Culture
St. Augustine on Signs
Metaphor and the Central Problem of Hermeneutics
Sport as a Celebrative and Worshipful Act
Foucault for Heisman
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |