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Tennis and philosophy what the racket is all about / edited by David Baggett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813150215
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV995 .T466 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
David Foster Wallace -- Why Roger Federer is the best: or is it McEnroe? / David Baggett -- Why are all tennis films bad? / Mark R. Huston -- Excuses, excuses: inside the mind of a complainer / Kevin Kinghorn -- Authoritarian tennis parents: are their children really any worse off? / Kevin Kinghorn -- "You cannot be serious!" The ethics of rage in tennis / David Detmer -- Love-love: a fresh start at finding value and virtue in tennis / Tommy Valentini -- A court conversation / Robert R. Clewis -- Stabbing Seles: fans and fair play / Mark W. Foreman -- The "Kournikova phenomenon" / Helen Ditouras -- Losing beautifully / Mark R. Huston -- Arthur Ashe: philosopher in motion / Jeanine Weekes Schroer -- The ridiculous meets the radical in the battle of the sexes / Maureen Linker -- Friendship, rivalry, and excellence / David Baggett and Neil Delaney Jr.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Federer as religious experience / David Foster Wallace -- Why Roger Federer is the best: or is it McEnroe? / David Baggett -- Why are all tennis films bad? / Mark R. Huston -- Excuses, excuses: inside the mind of a complainer / Kevin Kinghorn -- Authoritarian tennis parents: are their children really any worse off? / Kevin Kinghorn -- "You cannot be serious!" The ethics of rage in tennis / David Detmer -- Love-love: a fresh start at finding value and virtue in tennis / Tommy Valentini -- A court conversation / Robert R. Clewis -- Stabbing Seles: fans and fair play / Mark W. Foreman -- The "Kournikova phenomenon" / Helen Ditouras -- Losing beautifully / Mark R. Huston -- Arthur Ashe: philosopher in motion / Jeanine Weekes Schroer -- The ridiculous meets the radical in the battle of the sexes / Maureen Linker -- Friendship, rivalry, and excellence / David Baggett and Neil Delaney Jr.

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