Sport Philosophy Now by McNees Matthew James;

Author:McNees, Matthew James;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Unlimited Model
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ultimately, Moody published a character who, in 1998, chose the exact opposite path of Lance Armstrong at almost the exact same moment in history and based his decision on an entirely different ethics. We do have other real, nonfictional people who chose opposite to Armstrong, most notably the French cyclist Christophe Bassons, but we do not have in these cases of reality anyone comparable to Will Ross in terms of being able to garner the attention of an American audience in thinking about the “doping story,” as Moody calls it. In other words, the public did not have the information through its journalistic media sources (and by now the evidence is clear, as I to some extent take the time to show, that many journalists were part of the Armstrong posse) and so had to turn down other avenues—even if they did not know it![15] In fact, journalists who worked to break out of or dismantle this paradigm were put under duress by Armstrong’s legal defense of defamation. We have reached a point where this entire work could veer off into the subject of fast capitalism’s utter decadence, but that would only prove more thoroughly the depressing reality of all I am discussing by juxtaposing critical reflection with popular sports in this study.

So, who is Will Ross? He is one of the keys to understanding how the milieu of cycling took the path toward the Lance Armstrong scandal and how facticity came to be so perverted that fiction was truer than what was reported as truth for the American public in information from the emptiest fan reportage all the way to sports philosophy and the hope of a Philosophical Athlete and Cycling Philosophy for Everyone. Understanding this odd American cyclist in his world of pulp, hard-boiled sentiment and grit allows me to show the makeup of this opposite world.

But before turning to the intriguing example of fiction’s truth in the sport of professional cycling,[16] we have to turn down some potentially difficult corners and look much more closely at language philosophically and theoretically, for language itself becomes the subject of the phenomenon as we try to learn from the work of phenomenology that comes from Husserl and Heidegger into Merleau-Ponty and Sartre and, then, into some models we are working with today. We can justify our descent into language with the hope of learning about the ultimate realities of history and change as we continue to chase, as always, time. We step back from economics but not very far and not for very long, though we do step back to recognize what lies behind all the appearances of our present culture of spectacle and rhetoric where we find it so difficult to get at the so-called truth that many of us are ready to throw up our hands and quit thinking about it:

The deeper justification for using the linguistic model or metaphor must, I think, be sought outside the claims and counterclaims for scientific validity or technological progress. It lies

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