What We Think About When We Think About Football

Simon Critchley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2017 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78125-921-4 (ISBN)

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What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially masculinity, but increasingly femininity too), family identity, tribal identity, national identity, the nature of groups. It is essentially collaborative, even socialist, yet it exists in a sump of greed, corruption, capitalism and autocracy.

Philosopher Simon Critchley attempts to make sense of it all, and to establish a system of aesthetics - even poetics - to show what is beautiful in the beautiful game. He explores, too, how the experience of watching football opens a particular dimension in time; how its magic wards off oblivion; how its dramas play out national identity and non-identity; how we spectators, watching football with tragic pensiveness, participate in the play. And of course, as a football fan, he writes about his heroes and villains: about Zidane and Cruyff, Clough and Revie, Shankly and Klopp.

Simon Critchley has published books on a wide expanse of ethical and philosophical subjects, including the bestselling The Book of Dead Philosophers, his cult novel Memory Theatre and his memoir-analysis of David Bowie - On Bowie (for Serpents Tail). He is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, and series moderator of 'The Stone', a philosophy column in The New York Times. He comes from a Liverpool family and watches his team, devotedly, each weekend, 3306 miles away from Anfield.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	Black and white photos throughout
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	120 x 184 mm
Gewicht	236 g
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-78125-921-6 / 1781259216
ISBN-13	978-1-78125-921-4 / 9781781259214
Zustand	Neuware