Politics and Pleasure: The Philosophy of Physical Education Revisited

• Autores: Douglas Booth
• Localización: Quest, ISSN 0033-6297, Vol. 61, Nº. 2, 2009, págs. 133-153
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Humans unquestionably derive pleasurable physical sensations from different types of movement. Yet, remarkably, there is a deafening silence around the subject in the literature on human movement. This article comprises three parts. First, I outline pre­vailing conceptualizations of pleasure as they relate to physical activity in the social sciences and biology. Second, I sketch the history of physical activity in modernity which I describe as a process of de-pleasuring, and third, I discuss the prejudice against pleasure in the academy and in state policy. In the conclusion, I propose plea­sure as a potential pillar of disciplinary coherence in physical education