by Albert Jacquard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253114437
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«Halte aux jeux» is the critical essay by Albert Jacquard, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (124 pages, in French).
On the centenary of the Olympic Games, Albert Jacquard asks whether the Games are still a game and whether what we see is sport. As a geneticist, Jacquard denounces ruthless competition, commodification and mass doping, which dehumanize athletes, and proposes a new charter for a humanist Olympism.
The original dates from 2004; this edition was published in 2005 and belongs to the Le Livre de Poche collection (no. 30382).
This is a short, polemical essay aimed at readers interested in the philosophy of sport and in social and institutional criticism.
Albert Jacquard was a French geneticist, popularizer of science and essayist.
