Der Sport als Medium der Selbstverwirklichung und Entfremdung / Sport as a way to self-realization and alienation
AbstractRegarding prescientific judgements as to value and scientific interpretations of sport the discussion points: An essential of sociological thinking about sport was the question of whether and how far sport could be a way to human self-realization and human alienation. The answers were controvers because of anthropological ambiguities: to care for the physical nature on one hand and to refuse this concept of life on the other hand, to concentrate human behavior for performances on one hand and to refuse this concentration as restraints on the other hand. The notions of self-realization and alienation have been depending on anthropological concepts or ideas of human life, on its physical nature and on aspects to discipline this nature. The opposition of the notions of self-realization and alienation depends on ideological concepts of human life; therefore these notions are not suitable for an objective description of sport.