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Writer, teacher, cat-man Head, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts and Publisher at Tankebanen forlag. Here is more information about me. Learn more about academic books I have published. You can also read many of my articles for free. And here is a page entirely dedicated to poetry in translation! This site has a cookie policy.

dressage and illusio.

Sports make us see our bodies differently

dressage and illusio, my study of how perceptions of our body is shaped through sports in school and in the mass media, is still available (for example from Amazon). Professor Sigmund Loland, a major voice in international sports philosophy, commented that this book “enters directly into current philosophical and social scientific questions regarding sport – nation – body, and anchors the debate in strong, theoretical currents. [It is] rich in perspective and original analysis.” Read more.

The philosophical foundations of any theory cannot be a form of knowledge but must be a subtler, more indirect way of addressing the world.

Graham Harman