What We Think About When We Think About Football
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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.