Introduction

The author introduces sport aesthetics as an important but often marginalized part of philosophy of sport. Sport aesthetics concerns aesthetic properties in sport, the nature of aesthetic sports, and the relationships between sport and art. Extant literature, however, tends to be narrowly defined: disjoint, incomplete, subtypical, and unresolved, thus motivating the broad perspective in the rest of the book. Skepticism about sport aesthetics by Ziff and others is answered by stressing that the aesthetic remains an aspect of sport despite its ugly and plain sides.