Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
Introduction: The Allure of Sports
John Zilcosky
Part II: Theoretical Perspectives
1. Sports/Allure
Grant Farred
2. "Allure" Constrained by "Ethics"? How Athletic Events Have Engaged Their Spectators
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Part III: The Ancient World
3. The Fading Allure of Greek Athletics
Sophie Remijsen
4. Wrestling, or the Art of Disentangling Bodies
John Zilcosky
5. The Allure and Ethics of Ancient Aesthetics: Hellenism in the Modern Olympic Movement
Charles Stocking
Part IV: Modern Europe
6. Attractive or Repugnant? Foot Races in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Britain
Rebekka Von Mallinckrodt
7. A Well-Trained Community: Gymnastics for the German Nation
Wolf Kittler
8. Importing a German Kampfsport: The Reception and Practice of Japanese Martial Arts in Interwar Germany
Sarah Panzer
9. The Ethics and Allure of the Foul in Football
Annette Vowinckel
Part V: Coda
10. Swimming
Karin Helmstaedt
Contributors
Index