Abschied vom Irgendwie

Reflection on the politics of sport is a scientific area of development. Everybody knows that sport has to do with politics in some way, but nobody seems to be interested to know how this relationship is precisely conditioned and it is left in that“somehow”. But whoever wants to bring politics responsibly into sport has to understand which special object is to be dealt with: which options of political acting approve of this pattern of sense and which exclude it? A well-founded understanding of sport politics extracts its aims from the particular sense of sport acting, its means out of the particular sense of political acting. So the term is reserved for a kind of political acting which gives power to the cultural sport idea for self-confidence, self-unfolding and self-maintaining in the societal space. It becomes a standard for the critical examination of legitimacy or illegitimacy of political acting in the field of sport. Details of this fundamental understanding specified in eight theses present a building block for the draft of a general theory und history of sports politics.