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Peredelʹskiy A.A., Nesterov P.V., Mamedov A.A., Kirtoakeh A., Akhapkin V.N. [Mythologization of modern sports or «back to the future»] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2022, Vol. 13, No. 4. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/34SCSK422.pdf (in Russian).

Mythologization of modern sports or «back to the future»

Peredelʹskiy Aleksey Anatolʹevich
Russian State Agrarian University — Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Moscow, Russia

Nesterov Pavel Vladimirovich
Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture, Moscow, Russia

Mamedov Azer Agabala ogly
Russian State Agrarian University — Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Moscow, Russia

Kirtoakeh Aleksandru
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Akhapkin Vasiliy Nikolaevich
Russian State Agrarian University — Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Moscow, Russia
Mythologization of modern sports or «back to the future»

Abstract. In the context of the historical and philosophical reconstruction of the social and ideological foundations of the ancient agonistic sports tradition, which experienced the fundamental Phoenician and Greco-Roman cultural and civilizing influence, the authors of the article analyze the traditional and innovative approaches of Western sports philosophers to the problem of modern sports myth-making.

The relevance of this material lies in the fact that not only traditional, but also newfangled, more sophisticated and inventive attempts to impose mythological ideas on sports reality, based on the attitude that ideas create social matter, and not vice versa, require their scientific and philosophical analysis and evaluation. The prospect of using a mythologized and actually substituted picture of the reality of sports as a convenient mechanism for manipulating individual and public consciousness in favor of a certain commercial and political social order also requires its own scientific and philosophical forecast.

The purpose of this work is a scientific and philosophical analysis and assessment of myth-making in the field of sports, as well as a forecast of the consequences that are possible and expected with the successful implementation of traditional and innovative approaches associated with ideological distortion and mythological substitution of the reality of sports.

The main conclusion of the scientific and philosophical analysis is the following conclusion: if the ideology, the spiritual and mental core of the ancient Mediterranean culture, which became the cradle of European civilization, was determined not only by the Hellenistic mythological doctrine and the ancient Greek heroic epic, but also by the Phoenician trading civilization, then it can be assumed that the mythology of the Ancient Greece already initially served as a fabulously popular, colorful ideal picture, covering up the true, far from ideal, basic and ideological levers for gaining and maintaining power in the region under consideration. In this case, modern attempts to mythologize sports are not without historical continuity and foundation.

The research methodology is a traditional or qualitative-content analysis of documents. The study is organized according to the type of philosophical and historical essay.

Keywords: mythologization and myth-making in modern sport; distortion and substitution of sports reality

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