Sport and political ideology.

TLDR: The body as an ideological variable: sportive Imagery of leadership and the state as discussed by the authors is a metaphor for sportive imagery and the leader of a political athlete in the modern world.

Abstract: * Acknowledgments *1. Sport in the Age of Ideology * Sport and Ideology * The Symbolic Power of Sport * Sport and Ideological Differentiation * Blood Sport as an Ideological Variable * A Postscript on Ideology and American Sport *2. The Labor-Leisure Dialectic and the Origins of Ideology * The Problem of Origins * The Marxists and Prehistory * The Marxists on Labor and Play * The Conservatives and Prehistory * Johan Huizinga and Josef Pieper versus the Marxists * The Metaphysical Roots of the Quarrel *3. The Body as an Ideological Variable: Sportive Imagery of Leadership and the State * Theoretical Introduction * Narcissistic Types of Body Display * Sportive Imagery and the Leader: The Fascist Political Athlete * Sportive Imagery and the Leader: Marxism's Renunciation of the Political Athlete * Sportive Images of the State: Toward a Fascist Style * Marxism's Renunciation of the Sportive (Organic) State *4. The Political Psychologies of the Sportive and Antisportive Temperaments * Fascism and the Sportive Temperament * Nietzsche and the Authority of the Body * Fascist Style and Sportive Manhood * Sport and the Left Intellectuals * Virility and the Left * What Marx Did Not Know *5. From Amateurism to Nihilism: Sport, Cultural Conservatism, and the Critique of Modernity * Sport and the Intellectuals * An Early Sociology of Sport * Ambivalent Liberalism: Sport and Rational Planning * Radical Disillusion: Sport and the Spiritual Vacuum *"Christian Fatalism": Sport and the Decline of Values * Aristocratic Vitalism: Culture and the Sportive Style of Life * The Critique of the Spectator *6. Nazi Sport Theory: Racial Heroism and the Critique of Sport * The Doctrine of the Body * The Nazi Critique of Sport * A Comparative Perspective *7. The Origins of Socialist Sport: Marxist Sport Culture in the Years of Innocence * Early Soviet Sport Ideology * The Workers' Sport Movement in Germany, 1893-1933 *8. Sport in the Soviet Union: Stalinization and the New Soviet Athlete * Sport, Labor, and the New Soviet Man * The New Stakhanovites * The Soviet Critique of Sport *9. The Sport Culture of East Germany: Optimism and the Rationalization of the Body * The Origins of East German Sport Culture * Sport, Play, and the Labor-Leisure Dialectic * The Technological Human of the Future * The Role of Tradition * The Critique of Capitalist Sport *10. Purism and the Flight from the Superman: The Rise and Fall of Maoist Sport * The Origins of Maoist Sport * Maoist Sport Ideology * The End of Maoist Sport *11. Toward the Abolition of "Sport": Neo-Marxist Sport Theory * Historical Background * The Neo-Marxist Critique of Sport * The Frankfurt School on Sport and the Body * Notes * Bibliography * Index