TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirazian,Laurie
TI  - Self-view, worldview: Is bodybuilding a contemporary symptom?
PY  - 2025///.
							
N1  - 92
N2  - This article examines the contemporary practice of bodybuilding in Lebanon, set against a backdrop of sociopolitical instability and the collapse of collective reference points. The pursuit of a muscular and standardized body is explored as an attempt at subjective stabilization and the neutralization of differences, in response to identity anxiety and social fragmentation. Bodybuilding is thus analyzed as a cultural symptom, revealing a broader civilizational malaise and a new, defensive worldview embodied in the body
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-topique-2025-3-page-169?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -