Finally, we are able to discuss Fight Club!

or,

A physical and philosophical mediation on why we are attracted to fight each other for sport, what happens to your bodies and brains whenever we do, and what it all means

Anyone with guts or madness in him will get hit by a person who knows how; it requires a different kind of madness, a far more persistent kind, to hang in there long enough to become one of the people who does the knowing.

Josh Rosenblatt was thirty-three years old when he initial realized he wanted to battle..Read More about Why We Combat: One Man’s Search for Meaning In the Ring A lifelong pacifist using a philosopher’s hatred of assault and a dandy’s aversion to workout, he drank to excessive, smoked passionately, ate indifferently, and mocked physical activity that didn’t involve nudity. But deep down inside there was always some part of his being that was attracted to the idea of fighting. So, after studying Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and boxing, he chose, at age group forty, that it was finally time for you to fight his first-and only-mixed martial arts match: all in the name of knowledge and transcending historic fears.

An insightful and moving rumination in the nature of fighting with each other, Why We Battle takes us about his journey from the bleachers towards the band. Using his personal training as an opportunity to understand how the sport illuminates basic human being impulses, Rosenblatt weaves jointly cultural background, criticism, biology, and anthropology to understand what happens to our body and mind when under attack, and to explore why he, a self-described “cowardly guy from your suburbs,” uncovered so much meaning in placing his body, and others’, at risk.

From the mindset of fear to the physiology of discomfort, from Ukrainian shtetls to Brooklyn boxing gyms, from Lord Byron to George Plimpton, Why We Fight is a fierce inquiry in to the abiding selling point of our most conflicted and controversial fixation, interwoven with a firsthand accounts of what happens whenever a mild-mannered intellectual chooses to step into the ring for his first real showdown.