Tag: sport
11 Oct 23
Review of reader in sports philosophy is out
My review of Jason Holt’s new edited collection of essays on sports philosophy is out and in print in the journal Teaching Philosophy 46, no. 3. In the review I write that Philosophy of Sport: Core …
22 Mar 23
New essay on elite athletes
My essay “Bourdieu’s Field Theory Revisited: A Case for ‘National Signification’” has been published by Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Philosophy of S…
18 Jul 19
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 …
14 Sep 17
Praise for dressage and illusio
Professor Sigmund Loland, former principal of Norway’s Elite sports college, has praised the book dressage and illusio: sport, nation and the new global body:
… enters directly into current phil…
31 Jul 17
Op-ed piece on video refereeing in football (Norwegian)
This essay on video refereeing in football was published by the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet 21 July in Norwegian.
28 Jul 17
Everything you need to know about sport in the global media
New book by Torgeir Fjeld out on Scholars’ Press. Among the key questions raised in this book are:
Has globalization come to an end or are we forever shaped by the centrifugal forces that bind us e…
13 Nov 16
Dressage and illusio
What should we make of the terms dressage and illusio in the context of sports?
Dressage is a way to make bodies submit, to domesticate and somatise, so that they can be governed and mastered. In spo…
About Torgeir Fjeld
I have taught at many universities in North America, Europe, and Africa, including the University of Minnesota, Roehampton University, the University of Gdańsk, and the University of kwaZulu/Natal. I am Head of the Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of Inscriptions. My latest books are Introducing Ereignis: philosophy, technology, way of life and Perversion’s Beyond: life at the edge of knowledge. I have published many articles, editorials, and op-eds; you can read many of them for free by following links on the articles page. And here is a page entirely dedicated to poetry in translation! This site has a cookie policy.
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