What We Think About When We Think About Football

Released on by Simon Critchley
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  • What We Think About When We Think About Football Book Detail

  • Author : Simon Critchley
  • Release Date : 2017-11-02
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 163
  • ISBN 13 : 1782833897
  • File Size : 8,8 MB
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What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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