The aesthetic objectification of sport

Sport as a cultural industry from the perspective of Theodor Adorno

Abstract

This essay aims to examine sport within the current global context; more precisely, its cultural forms and its evolution as a historical product, from the critical perspective of its aesthetic analysis. Within this context, it aims to analyze sport, its genesis and its transformations, together with Theodor Adorno's aesthetic criticism, in order to finally articulate both perspectives. The work is inscribed in an educational key in relation to sport as the object, seeking to confront it dialectically with its contradiction in the search for an overcoming thesis.