Games of Sport, Works of Art, and the Striking Beauty of Asian Martial Arts

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 40 (2):241 - 254 (2013)
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Abstract

Martial-arts practice is not quite anything else: it is like sport, but is not sport; it constantly refers to and as it were cohabits with violence, but is not violent; it is dance-like but not dance. It shares a common athleticism with sports and dance, yet stands apart from both, especially through its paradoxical commitment to the external value of being an instrument of violence. My discussion seeks to illuminate martial arts practice by systematic contrast to games of sport and works of performance art, especially dance

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Barry Allen
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