Theodor Adorno on Sport: The Jeu D’Esprit of Despair

Let them eat cake, (brioche) that will keep them quiet

 Jeu D’Esprit  - a light-hearted display

 Far from holding a wholly derogatory opinion of sports, Adorno wants not only to criticize the contemporary debased forms in which sports are manifested in today’s capitalist society, but also to valorize and defend the possible, more free and liberatory, types of sports that could occur in a future society devoid of oppression and power.

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