This article reads urban running as a form of mass asceticism. Through Weber, Benjamin, Lukács, Kafka, and Hugo Ball, it argues that athletic practice stages a passage from ascetic discipline to mysticism as spectacle, where bodily exhaustion becomes exposed, measured, and commodified within metropolitan masses.
Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Italy
Chapter Title
Corsa e coscienza di masse
Authors
Massimo Palma
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0891-8.07
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Book Title
Homo Horizontalis
Book Subtitle
Ascesi fisiche e ascese alpinistiche
Editors
Mirko Alagna, Sara Benvenuti, Giovanna Lo Monaco
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
372
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0891-8
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0890-1
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0891-8
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0892-5
Series Title
FuoricEntro
Series ISSN
3035-5958