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What We Think About When We Think About Football

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

What We Think About When We Think About Football

By Simon Critchley

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About the book

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 poeti...Show more

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9781781259221

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

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What We Think About When We Think About Football

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Paperback

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