What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
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What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
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Author : Simon Critchley
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-10-31
What We Think About When We Think About Soccer written by Simon Critchley and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-31 with Sports & Recreation categories.
You play soccer. You watch soccer. You live soccer You breathe soccer. But do you think about soccer? Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, inspiring the absolute devotion of countless fans around the globe. But what is it about soccer that makes it so compelling to watch, discuss, and think about? Is it what it says about class, race, or gender? Is it our national, regional, or tribal identities? Simon Critchley thinks it’s all of these and more. In his new book, he explains what soccer can tell us about each, and how each informs the way we interpret the game, all while building a new system of aesthetics, or even poetics, that we can use to watch the beautiful game. Critchley has made a career out of bringing philosophy to the people through popular subjects, and in What We Think About When We Think About Soccer he uses his considerable philosophical acumen to examine the sport that has captured the hearts and minds of millions.
What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
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Author : Simon Critchley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-02
What We Think About When We Think About Soccer written by Simon Critchley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with Soccer categories.
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.
Soccer S Neoliberal Pitch
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Author : John M. Sloop
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2023-05-23
Soccer S Neoliberal Pitch written by John M. Sloop and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"American sports agnostics might raise an eyebrow at the idea that soccer represents a staging ground for progressive cultural, social, and political possibility within the United States. It is just another game, after all, in a society where mass-audience spectator sport largely avoids any political stance in other than a generic, corporate-friendly patriotism. But John Sloop picks up on the work of Laurent Dubois and others to see in American soccer-a sport that has achieved immense participation and popularity even as it struggles to establish major league status-a game that permits surprisingly diverse modes of thinking about national identity because of its marginality. As a rhetorician who engages with both critical theory and culture, John Sloop seeks to read soccer as the game intersects with gender, race, sexuality, class, and the logic of neoliberal values. The result of this engagement is a sense of both enormous possibility, and real constraint. If American soccer offers more possibility because of its marginality, looking at how these cultural, social, and political possibilities are closed off or constrained can provide valuable insights into American culture and values. In Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch, Sloop analyzes a host of soccer-adjacent case studies: the equal pay dispute between the US women's national team and the US Soccer Federation, the significance of hooligan literature, the introduction of English soccer to American TV audiences, the strange invisibility of the Mexican soccer league despite its consistent high TV ratings, and the reading of US national teams as "underdogs" despite the nation's quasi-imperial dominance of the Western hemisphere. While there is a growing bookshelf of titles on soccer and a growing number on American soccer, Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch is the first and only book-length analysis of soccer through a rhetorical lens. This book is a model for critical cultural work with sports, with appeal to not only sports studies, but cultural studies, communication, and even gender studies classrooms. It is, independent of its bona fides, an engaging and enjoyable read for the soccer fan and the soccer-curious"--
The Book Of Dead Philosophers
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Author : Simon Critchley
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2011-08-04
The Book Of Dead Philosophers written by Simon Critchley and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-04 with Philosophy categories.
Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley looks at the strange circumstances in which some philosophers have died and then confronts the big themes - in this case, what 'a good death' means and how to live with the knowledge of death. The book consists of short entries on various philosophers, cataloguing the manner of their demises and linking this to their central ideas, from the Pre-Socratics to Rousseau, Kant and Nietzsche among many others. The book concludes with Critchley's thoughts on the ideal of the philosophical death as a way of denouncing contemporary delusions and sophistries, what Francis Bacon saw as the Idols of the Tribe, the Den, the Market-Place and the Theatre (incidentally, Bacon died in a particularly cold winter in London in 1626 from a cold contracted after trying to stuff a chicken with snow as an experiment in refrigeration).
Creative Mind Development Of Free Thinking Football Players
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Author : Pawel Guziejko
language : en
Publisher: Bright Pen
Release Date : 2013-09
Creative Mind Development Of Free Thinking Football Players written by Pawel Guziejko and has been published by Bright Pen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
" I am sure you will find this an enjoyable and insightful read. As coaches we should always look to challenge ourselves and I believe this book will challenge your thinking and help you think practically when you are out on the grass working with your players" " Do you coach children? Well, have you ever stopped to think what an important role you're playing in that child's development? How you are shaping them for future development? How you have been trusted by their parents to give their child a FUN, positive experience of football? Once you consider these questions, I'm sure you come to the conclusion that it is a big responsibility to make sure your development as a coach is on the same level as that you would expect from the children you are coaching. Therefore I think as a coach it's highly important to keep developing and drawing experience from others, to help better yourself and hopefully as a result help the children you are coaching reach their full potential.This book offers a great insight into the different aspects you might need to think about when coaching a group of children from psychological challenges, perception skills, technical skills, match based practices, fundamental practices and a whole lot more.
The Aesthetics Poetics And Rhetoric Of Soccer
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Author : Ridvan Askin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-08
The Aesthetics Poetics And Rhetoric Of Soccer written by Ridvan Askin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game'. This multi-disciplinary volume explores soccer, soccer culture, and the representation of soccer in art, film, and literature, using the critical tools of aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric. Including international contributions from scholars of philosophy, literary and cultural studies, linguistics, art history, and the creative arts, this book begins by investigating the relationship between beauty and soccer and asks what criteria should be used to judge the sport’s aesthetic value. Covering topics as diverse as humor, national identity, style, celebrity, and social media, its chapters examine the nature of fandom, the role of language, and the significance of soccer in contemporary popular culture. It also discusses what one might call the ‘stylistics’ of soccer, analyzing how players, fans, and commentators communicate on and off the pitch, in the press, on social media, and in wider public discourse. The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer makes for fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport, culture, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and society.
How Soccer Explains The World
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Author : Franklin Foer
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
How Soccer Explains The World written by Franklin Foer and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Social Science categories.
“An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about. . . . Bristles with anecdotes that are almost impossible to believe.” —New York Times Book Review “Terrific. . . . A travelogue full of important insights into both cultural change and persistence. . . . Foer’s soccer odyssey lends weight to the argument that a humane world order is possible.” — Washington Post Book World A groundbreaking work—named one of the five most influential sports books of the decade by Sports Illustrated—How Soccer Explains the World is a unique and brilliantly illuminating look at soccer, the world’s most popular sport, as a lens through which to view the pressing issues of our age, from the clash of civilizations to the global economy. From Brazil to Bosnia, and Italy to Iran, this is an eye-opening chronicle of how a beautiful sport and its fanatical followers can highlight the fault lines of a society, whether it’s terrorism, poverty, anti-Semitism, or radical Islam—issues that now have an impact on all of us. Filled with blazing intelligence, colorful characters, wry humor, and an equal passion for soccer and humanity, How Soccer Explains the World is an utterly original book that makes sense of our troubled times.
Thoughtful Soccer
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Author : Russ Carrington
language : en
Publisher: Reedswain Inc.
Release Date : 2003-09
Thoughtful Soccer written by Russ Carrington and has been published by Reedswain Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A truly innovative model for coaching and playing soccer in which the thought side of the game is as important as the skills and players begin thinking early in their development. The key to the Thoughtful Soccer picture is unpredictability. Players might pass, shoot or dribble. They might move the ball forward, back or to the side. And they might attack quickly or advance the ball patiently. Observers, as well as opponents, cannot predict what is going to happen. That is what makes Thoughtful Soccer so enjoyable to watch. Perfect for both new and experienced coaches and players, this unique method will benefit teams at all levels of the game. Book jacket.
Concentration Mechanism Of Tennis Golf Soccer Baseball And Skiing
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Author : Benjamin J. An, DDS
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-10-27
Concentration Mechanism Of Tennis Golf Soccer Baseball And Skiing written by Benjamin J. An, DDS and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Benjamin An has discovered the human hand structure, which explains why humans are born to hit with an implement and to throw with a trajectory release. Hitting and throwing became the most powerful actions in the animal kingdom. These actions became the primary tools for humans to survive historically. Survival skills become sports actions in the modern, civilized world. Different sports were invented with modification of the sports actions. Dr. An has looked into these actions seriously in terms of human nature—intellectually, biomechanically, psychologically, physically, and mentally—in order to help athletes perform these actions without confusion. Many performance problems occur just because these actions are parts of human nature and humans know too much about these actions. For example, for every action, a human knows the results of this action. It is very hard for a human to concentrate on the actions only and ignore the results of these actions. Thinking about the results has become one of the most serious interferences of that action itself. Dr. An calls these intellectual interferences. Human physical actions are complicated by human mental thoughts and intellectual understandings. Sports actions are not just physical actions. Sports actions have to be modified if it is necessary and executed with specific mental thoughts in order to fit in any specific sport. The author has specifically emphasized on these points in his book.
How To Talk About Books You Haven T Read
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Author : Pierre Bayard
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-07-05
How To Talk About Books You Haven T Read written by Pierre Bayard and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Humor categories.
How and why do we spend so much time talking about forgotten books, books we've skimmed or books we've only heard about? In this mischievous and provocative book, Pierre Bayard contends that the truly cultivated person does not need to read books: understanding their place in our culture is enough.