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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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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Sports & outdoor recreation Ball games

• Full title: What We Think About When We Think About Football
• Author: Simon Critchley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9781781259221
• ISBN: 1781259224
• ID: 19062048
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Weight: 136 g
• Dimensions: 112 × 177 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. May 2018

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