‘Getting it into the body’: understanding skill acquisition through Merleau-Ponty and the embodied practice of dance
September 14, 2017 A. Purser
Abstract This paper responds to calls across the sociological, philosophical and psychological dimensions of Sports Studies to attend to the promise of phenomenology as an approach to understanding the complexities and nuances of embodied athletic experience. The work of the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is drawn upon to elucidate expertise through a non-dualist framework for understanding...