@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004353,
 author = {Hearn, Jonathan},
 issue = {48},
 journal = {人文科学研究 : キリスト教と文化},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {This talk provides an overview of a developing research project on the 
transformation of the concept of competition, and its increasing institutionalisation, in 
the historical formation of modern liberal culture. I argue that competition is a core 
cultural concept that is crucial in organizing and legitimating power relations in liberal 
forms of society. It facilitates authoritative allocations of power and rewards in a form 
of society that is typically suspicious of authority, and it does this across multiple 
domains: economics, politics, science, the arts, and so on. Particularly telling here, is the 
way competition exhibits many of the key features of ‘ritual’ typically associated with 
religion. It dramatizes core cultural values, performatively transforms the social roles of 
participants, inculcates community, and authorises outcomes by linking them to an 
underlying cosmological order. I present competition as a key to the cultural analysis of 
liberal society.},
 pages = {31--54},
 title = {The Culture of Competition in Modern Liberal Societies},
 year = {2016}
}