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Critchley, Simon

 
9781781259221: What We Think About When We Think About Football
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ISBN 10 : 1781259224 ISBN 13 : 9781781259221
Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A philosopher's take on what makes the beautiful game.

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Éditeur
Profile Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1781259224
ISBN 13 
9781781259221
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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