What We Think About When We Think About Football
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;…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78283-389-5
- EAN: 9781782833895
- Produktnummer: 23520893
- Verlag: Profile
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'833 KB
- Abbildungen: Black and white photos throughout
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