This chapter examines creativity in sport through the lens of existential philosophy. It employs a classic existential distinction between facticity and transcendence to provide an account of creativity as a distinctly human mode of engagement within sports. Facticity, the given constraints of one’s existence, is juxtaposed against transcendence, the human capacity to surpass the given and create new meaning and value. This existential approach transcends the traditional view of creativity as an individual’s cognitive ability, emphasising creativity in sport as an embodied, relational, and situational phenomenon. The chapter’s exploration of creativity is structured by three distinct realms of existence: the natural world (Umwelt), the social world (Mitwelt), and the world above (Überwelt). Drawing on this existential framework, the chapter outlines three primary forms of creativity: bodily, social, and aspirational. Bodily creativity is the participant’s embodied engagement with the environment where new meaning is created by alternating ways of moving, while social creativity arises from interpersonal dynamics in the social world where constraints are overcome, and social change is created by deception, collaboration, and resistance. Finally, aspirational creativity refers to creating new value by striving towards the higher forms of bodily existence.

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Existential Perspectives on Creativity in Sport

  • Kenneth Aggerholm

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This chapter examines creativity in sport through the lens of existential philosophy. It employs a classic existential distinction between facticity and transcendence to provide an account of creativity as a distinctly human mode of engagement within sports. Facticity, the given constraints of one’s existence, is juxtaposed against transcendence, the human capacity to surpass the given and create new meaning and value. This existential approach transcends the traditional view of creativity as an individual’s cognitive ability, emphasising creativity in sport as an embodied, relational, and situational phenomenon. The chapter’s exploration of creativity is structured by three distinct realms of existence: the natural world (Umwelt), the social world (Mitwelt), and the world above (Überwelt). Drawing on this existential framework, the chapter outlines three primary forms of creativity: bodily, social, and aspirational. Bodily creativity is the participant’s embodied engagement with the environment where new meaning is created by alternating ways of moving, while social creativity arises from interpersonal dynamics in the social world where constraints are overcome, and social change is created by deception, collaboration, and resistance. Finally, aspirational creativity refers to creating new value by striving towards the higher forms of bodily existence.