Fighting for Life

Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness

Walter J. Ong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

1981
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-1342-1 (ISBN)

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What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male agonistic drive finds an outlet in games as divergent as football and chess.

Demonstrating the importance of contest in biological evolution and in the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, Ong also shows how adversary procedure has affected social, linguistic, and intellectual history. He discusses shifting patterns of contest in such arenas as spectator sports, politics, business, academia, and religion. Human beings' internalization of agonistic drives, he concludes, can foster the deeper discovery of the self and of distinctively human freedom.

Walter J. Ong (1912-2003) taught at Saint Louis University for thirty years. His many books include Orality and Literacy, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology; Interfaces of the Word; and Fighting for Life, the latter three from Cornell.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.1981
Zusatzinfo	2 Maps; 8 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8014-1342-7 / 0801413427
ISBN-13	978-0-8014-1342-1 / 9780801413421
Zustand	Neuware