Estética e Desporto

Although sport has always played an important role in my life, whether as a modest tennis player or as a passionate fan, especially of football and rugby, the truth is that I only made it a subject of study and more systematic reflection, when I started teaching at the University of Évora various subjects from the epistemological area of ​​philosophy to Physical Education and Sport courses. It soon became clear to me that the area of ​​sports philosophy is a huge field of research possibilities that I have been trying to develop ever since. In this context, the phenomenological aesthetics of Merleau-Ponty and Dufrenne play a decisive role in the approach I seek to carry out in this volume.