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Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport : On Becoming an Elite Athlete - Kenneth Aggerholm

Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport

On Becoming an Elite Athlete

By: Kenneth Aggerholm

Paperback | 4 August 2016

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 'Why don't young athletes in sport just quit?' Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of being a talented young sportsperson striving to become an elite athlete.

As an alternative to conventional approaches to talent development governed by a worldview of instrumental rationality, the book introduces key ideas from educational philosophy to describe talent development through the concept of elite-Bildung. It pursues an existential understanding of developing in sport as a process of freedom, self-transcendence, striving for excellence and building up habits.

The book highlights a range of ambiguous and intriguing existential phenomena - most prominently wonder, question, expression, humour and repetition - and reveals an existential layer of meaning within talent development in sport, which can facilitate the process of becoming an elite athlete and give young athletes a number of reasons not to quit.ã

By deepening our understanding of performance and development in sport, and the process of becoming an elite player, this book is important reading for any serious student or researcher working in the philosophy of sport, sports coaching, sports development, sport psychology or applied sport science.

Industry Reviews

"Taking the practice of sports as intrinsically valuable to the athletes' life takes the talent development debate far beyond mere technical issues. This is what, for me, turns Aggerholm's book into an extremely valuable contribution to the philosophy of sports in general and to the talent development in sports debate in particular, as well as into a novel and revolutionary work in comparison to talent development in the wider sports literature. Aggerholm takes an unexplored and difficult path that goes beyond the ordinary and commonly taken paths to understanding talent development in sports issues, that is to say, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport presents a more challenging and exciting perspective than the dominant instrumental and rationalistic way of experiencing and understanding sports."

Francisco Lopez Frias (2015) Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: The Official Journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Association

"[Aggerholm] demonstrates an advanced and skilled grasp of difficult and subtle philosophical problems. The language of Aggerholm's book is excellent, the preciseness and the way of expressing difficult points are quite impressive. And I particularly appreciate how Aggerholm manages to let the individualistic aspects of existentialism be expanded to encompass the inter-subjective, and even collective and institutional aspects of human existence...Aggerholm's new book is an interesting and excellent piece of sport philosophical work."

"Well-conceived and important contribution to Nordic philosophy of sport"

Gunnar Breivik (2015) idrottsforum.org

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