FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W227204968> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W227204968 startingPage "30" @default.
• W227204968 abstract "In both word and deed, Henry de Montherlant personified man of letters as man of action. Heralded as one of three or four great moralistes of French literature, (2) and even at one time as France's greatest writer, writer of today who will be most read in year 2000, (3) Montherlant also delighted in world of sport. He played soccer, ran track, and developed an abiding passion for tauromachy. Sport provided Montherlant with an alternative source of virile masculinity and martial camaraderie that he experienced in war, and he delighted in his body during brief autumn of its integrity. (4) While other French intellectuals of his generation wrote about sport, including Jean Prevost, Andre Obey, Dominique Braga, and Joseph Jolinson, Montherlant was most renowned in terms of athletic achievement and literary reputation. He was also a part of a larger cohort of high profile, internationally recognized literati who embraced cult of physical and l'ordre male as repudiation of passivity and femininity; like Gumilyov, Montherlant celebrated militarism--what Gumilyov called the majestic business of war; (5) like Marinetti and Junger, he found an almost mystical rapture in blood sport of combat; like Roosevelt, he was drawn to kill as full awakening of sensuality; and like Hemmingway, he found in corrida ultimate reaffirmation of manliness and self-awareness. Akin to Hemmingway's admiration for Etruscans, Montherlant venerated ideals of virtu he discovered in solar mythology of Mithraism, violent official religion of 3rd century Emperors that intoxicated Roman legions. (6) The moral climate of in fact served as wellspring of his young life: My intellectual growth, my ideas, my sensibility, my imagination, indeed even my temperament, are work of paganism, he once acknowledged. (7) Both Monther lant's fictional as well as his lived world was to a great extent world of men, of martial camaraderie, and angst-ridden challenge of decisive action, world of war and bullfighting, an antiChristian Nietzschean world in which values of power, conflict and force were enacted and confronted, a world in which taste for blood and proximity to death helped define athlete as personification of manliness. It was his glorification of both war and sport as well as his admiration for German values of courage, hard work, discipline and militarism, that caused Montherlant's athletic philosophy to be informed by what Frese Witt calls an aesthetic fascism (8) and Montherlant himself to be condemned for his political sympathies with Nazism. (9) But, to use Poe's immortal words, even though Montherlant preferred the grandeur that was Rome rather than the glory that was Greece, (10) he was enough of an antiquarian to find value in Greek model of sport and he developed more than a passing interest in Olympic Games, not only because of his love of sport but also because he found much to admire in Coubertin's ideology of Olympism with its attendant moralism, athletic aestheticism, and philosophical integration of intellectual and physical, and like Coubertin, Montherlant divined an almost mystical theology in ascetic of sport. Not himself an Olympic athlete--although a sprinter who once ran 100 meters in 11.8 seconds, not an unreasonable time considering that Charles Paddock won 100 meters at 1920 Antwerp Games in only 10.8 seconds--Montherlant was an Olympic aesthete, a participant in 1924 Paris Fine Arts Competitions. Coubertin's athlete though was born of a romantic, idealistic inclination, and represented consummation of a life based on a commitment to highest virtues of nobility, unselfishness and community. For Montherlant on other hand, athlete became personification of an atheistic nihilism, expression of a life of service inutile, (11) a self-centered ideal that posited that only choice individuals have to create any sense of a meaningful existence is to commit to a purpose, a cause, knowing at same time that any purpose or cause is merely a chimera. …" @default.
• W227204968 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W227204968 creator A5041095888 @default.
• W227204968 date "2010-01-01" @default.
• W227204968 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
• W227204968 title "'Chevalerie Du Neant' (the Knighthood of Nothingness): Henry De Montherlant and the Olympic Games Movement" @default.
• W227204968 hasPublicationYear "2010" @default.
• W227204968 type Work @default.
• W227204968 sameAs 227204968 @default.
• W227204968 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W227204968 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W227204968 hasAuthorship W227204968A5041095888 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C107993555 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C111472728 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C117731710 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C136815107 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C15744967 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C192562157 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C195244886 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C2776678506 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C2778868352 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C2779103072 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C2780310893 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C2780493273 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C2781008207 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C51364203 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C519517224 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C542102704 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W227204968 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C107993555 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C111472728 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C117731710 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C124952713 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C136815107 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C138885662 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C142362112 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C144024400 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C15744967 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C17744445 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C192562157 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C195244886 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C199539241 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C2776678506 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C2778868352 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C2779103072 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C2780310893 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C2780493273 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C2781008207 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C51364203 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C519517224 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C542102704 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C94625758 @default.
• W227204968 hasConceptScore W227204968C95457728 @default.
• W227204968 hasLocation W2272049681 @default.
• W227204968 hasOpenAccess W227204968 @default.
• W227204968 hasPrimaryLocation W2272049681 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W105717227 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W1503249073 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W1557819833 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W1595282576 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W2048529740 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W2147030380 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W2188475600 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W2267653481 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W2495477339 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W2501238910 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W267820202 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W315821405 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W583062380 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W602753735 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W603916224 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W658480627 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W787742491 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W9580307 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W2302252177 @default.
• W227204968 hasRelatedWork W3140722204 @default.
• W227204968 isParatext "false" @default.
• W227204968 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W227204968 magId "227204968" @default.
• W227204968 workType "article" @default.