Mogileva S. Contemporary sport in existential and social-communicative dimensions

The object of study is the phenomenon of contemporary sport in socio-philosophic context. The aim of the work is to reveal existential intentions of sport in contemporary socio-communicative practices. The methods include complex interdisciplinary approach, analysis, synthesis, description, explanation, comparative method. The practical significance: the results of the work can be used as the basis for further investigations of human capacities in sport and other limit anthropological practices. The results of the work can be used in teaching, first of all to prepare a special course on socio-philosophic problems of contemporary sport and to analyze certain questions in general courses on philosophic-cultural disciplines. The thesis is devoted to the research of existential characteristics of sport and their interpretation in modern social communicative space. We conduct the analysis of existential characteristics of sport. In order to conduct the research of existential aspects of sport we investigatethe unique bodility of the sportsman which is explained with the help of a new concept “author’s bodility”. We propose a new vision of sport where sport is seen as specifically human “thirst for recognition” which is explained with the help of a new concept of “aristotimia”. We differentiate anthropocentric and sociocentric markers of contemporary sport. We ground the possibilities to use moral-ethical values of sport agon in other competitor spheres of social space which are connected with the plurality of values and modes of life.