Publisher's Synopsis
"I like amateur sports because it socializes, moralizes, produces human relationships, and brings forth an epic." With his characteristic benevolence, Boris Cyrulnik talks to us about the human condition through the lens of sports. As a major social phenomenon of the 20th century, he considers sports to be a magnificent field of reconstruction in which resilience, a concept popularized by the French neuropsychiatrist, finds an exemplary application. His anthropological approach leads him to hypothesize that the conventions of games were born with the advent of a child's awareness of others and the pleasure they would derive from measuring themselves against them. This form of "proto-sport" would be at the root of our evolution since the dawn of humanity.
