What We Think About When We Think About Football (eBook)

Critchley Simon Critchley (Autor)

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2017
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-389-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Rezensionen

Simon Critchley is a figure of quite startling brilliance, and I can never guess what he'll do next, only that it is sure to sustain and nourish my appetite for his voice.

A quick and agile book: a kind of metaphysic of the football match, done by the Messi of modern philosophy

A beautiful book about the beautiful game ... the World Cup is coming - fans should start reading.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2017
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white photos throughout
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Clough • Cruyff • Football • football fans • Identity • Klopp • Philosophy • Revie • shankly • Sport • Zidane
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-389-7 / 1782833897
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-389-5 / 9781782833895