Olympischer gedanke pierre de coubertin biography
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Olympism and Fascism.
By Ljubodrag Simonović.
Source: Excerpt from the book &#;The Olympic Deceit of the &#;Divine Baron&#; &#; Pierre dem Coubertin&#;.
Posters: Vanja Zakanji.
As early as , at the time of the great recession, &#;father&#; of the modern Olympic Games Pierre dem Coubertin expressed his inclination towards authoritarian regimes, namely his discontent with the inefficiency of the capitalist system in its dealing with the working class :
"First of all, it was necessary to establish the International Olympic Committee with its basic rights, that should have been acknowledged bygd all the nations. This was not easy, because the Constitution of the Committee was opposed to the ideas of the time. It discarded the principle of delegation, so dear to our parliamentary democracies - the principle which, having done some great good, seems to be less efficient every day". (1)
It should also be noted that Coubertin was cordially accepted and his
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Mind the gap, creando una autoridad. Coubertin y el Congreso Olímpico de
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The “Shock of the Beautiful”
1In an article for the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport in , Douglas A. Brown presented a distinctive model for addressing the subject of aesthetics at the Olympic Games. According to this model, the modern Games’ founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, had used existing aesthetic theory, and the aesthetic ideas he derived from it, as a means of articulating his vision of sport as a signifying cultural practice.1 Sport, Coubertin wrote in an essay of , ought to be recognised as both the producer of and the inspiration for art; in turning the athlete into a “living sculpture”, it was a source of beauty to be consecrated and celebrated in spectacles and festivals.2 As the last claim begins to imply, Coubertin’s aesthetics of sport was intended to fuse productively with the broader socio-political ideology of his Olympism, itself a philosophy of life uniting body, mind, and will. In coming together to contemplate the sporting body, his Olympic audi