'Why don t young athletes in sport just quit? Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, "Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport" seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of being a talented young sportsperson striving to become an elite athlete.
As an alternative to conventional approaches to talent development governed by a worldview of instrumental rationality, the book introduces key ideas from educational philosophy to describe talent development through the concept of elite-Bildung. It pursues an...
'Why don t young athletes in sport just quit? Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, "...