文档介绍：BAR BARIC SPORT BAR BARIC SPORT A GLO B AL P LA G UE MARC P EREL M AN Translated by J ohn Howe London ? New York This book is supported by the Institut fran?ais as part of the Burgess Programme. (). This edition first published by Verso 2012 ? Verso 2012 Translation ? John Howe First published as Le sport barbare. Critique d’un fléau mondial ? Editions Michalon, Paris 2011 The ‘Twenty Theses on Sport’(‘Vingt thèses sur le sport’) were published in the first issue of the review Quel corps? (April 1975). They have been republished twice: in Jean-Marie Brohm’s Critiques du sport (1976); then, in an altered form, in an anthology entitled L’Opium sportif , edited by Jean-Pierre Escriva and Henri Vaugrand (1996); the theses first appeared in English in Jean-Marie Brohm, Sport: A Prison of Measured Time , London: Pluto Press, 1987 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG US: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 so is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-859-4 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perelman, Marc. [Sport barbare. English] Barbaric sport : a global plague / Marc Perelman ; translated by John Howe. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. Translated from French. ISBN 978-1-84467-859-4 -- ISBN 978-1-84467-913-3 1. Sports and state. 2. Sports--Sociological aspects. 3. Sports--Corrupt practices. 4. Sports and globalization. I. Title. 2012 --dc23 2012003763 Typeset in Bembo by MJ Gavan, Cornwall, UKPrinted in the US by Maple Vail We know that modern education makes great use of sports to distract the young from sexual activity: it would be more accurate to say that it replaces specifically sexual ple