Results for “Kierkegaard”

Publications and talks 6

2025
Peer-reviewed
A Silent Leap: Sport Beyond Ethics
Sport and Religion: Antiquity, Modernity and Contemporaneity

It is safe to say that the conjuncture of sport and religion has received scant attention in the mainstream of sports philosophy. In the recent voluminous and authoritative Routledge Handbook of Sports Philosophy (2017)…

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2024
Talk
A silent leap: sport beyond ethics

It is safe to say that the conjuncture of sport and religion has received scant attention in the mainstream of sports philosophy. In the recent voluminous and authoritative Routledge Handbook of Sports Philosophy (2017)…

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2020
Article
Hamsun's betrayals
CSS Conference 2019: Scandinavian Languages and Literatures World Wide

Knut Hamsun's late life was characterised by a sequence of betrayals, most notably his support for the Nazi occupation of Norway. This paper investigates how Hamsun utilised these acts of treachery to mount a unique def…

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2019
Talk
Hamsun's betrayals: psychoanalysis, treason, art
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2017
Peer-reviewed
In the isle of the Mountain King: Bergman on Shame and the call of art
Appraisal

The present article reconnects two of Ingmar Bergman's films from the mid '60s to notions of anxiety, alienation and creativity. Shame, a film set in a village ravaged by war, provides the viewer with three senses of tr…

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2013
Talk
A leap out of vanity: Kierkegaard, Kingo and the im-potentialities of our post-modern times

The work of the Baroque masters, such as the vanitas of Danish poet Thomas Kingo, serves to remind us of our post-modern fix. They signify our in-ability to realize the potentialities of our social circumstances. May ne…

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Blog posts 5

12 Apr, 2025
New publication: A Silent Leap: Sport Beyond Ethics
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There is a new volume of essays out on Sport and Religion, edited by the talented Constantino Pereira Martins and Luísa Ávila da Costa. I have been fortunate enough to be included in it with an essay …
12 Jun, 2023
Welcome speech at the 2023 Ereignis Conference
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Hello everyone, and welcome to this third Ereignis conference. The theme of this year’s conference, Beyond Dualism, resonates with debates that have a long and venerable history in thought. Many o…
3 Jul, 2020
Inscriptions 3, n2: Power in a time of pandemic is out
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Among our key questions in this open issue is the relation between the subject and power: what is the substance and appearance of the sovereign, what is the domain and limits of state power, and what …
17 Jun, 2020
CfP Inscriptions 4, n1: Artificial Life: ethics and the good life
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Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2020. Full manuscripts due 15 October 2020. Ethics, the question of how to live right and well, has been one of philosophy’s key concerns from its beginnings. In…
5 Jul, 2017
Video lecture on Kierkegaard and Agamben
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This video is a recording of a paper presented at a conference dvoted to Søren Kierkegaard at the University of Gdansk, Poland, in April 2013. The paper discusses the notion of leaps that we find in K…
About Torgeir Fjeld
Torgeir Fjeld is a writer, publisher, and educational administrator, holding PhDs in Philosophy (EGS, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton, 2012). His publications include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019), with articles in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and elsewhere. He serves as Head of Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Inscriptions, and has taught at universities across North America, Europe, and Africa. Torgeir Fjeld‘s latest talk was “Snow blind: on inoperativity and desolation in Askildsen, Fosse, and Naess” at 50 years of Scandinavian studies in Gdańsk, University of Gdańsk, Poland in November 2025. Here is section dedicated to poetry in translation. This page has a cookie policy.
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