Travis Timmons's Reviews > In Praise of Athletic Beauty

I loved it. Gumbrecht's framework is nuanced, which makes his work unique in that its not a sports-for-sports sake work, not sociology, and not mainstream sports writing. It's a philosophical work about aesthetics, really. Plus, it's personal, which I appreciate as Gumbrecht's framework flows out of his emotional relationship to sports. Bonus: the best explication/application of Kantian aesthetic I've seen. Lovely book.