Results for “ethics”

Publications and talks 7

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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2022
Talk
A silent trace: introducing Wolfgang Schirmacher's philosophy of the future

Wolfgang Schirmacher’s formulation of *Homo Generator* relies on a sense of the human subject that can be traced back to Martin Heidegger’s that we are at our most authentic when we are not identical to ourselves, or, i…

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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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2018
Inscriptions
Hope will die at last: an interview with Wolfgang Schirmacher
Inscriptions

To Wolfgang Schirmacher philosophy is about reading in the spirit of, so that we may follow the logic of the phenomenon that shows itself to us. It is in this spirit of phenomenology Schirmacher asks whether Martin Heid…

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2007
Article
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Klassekampen
2000
Peer-reviewed
Ethics after Marxism? Review of Discourse Theory and Political Analysis: identities, hegemonies and social change, edit…
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory
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Blog posts 7

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 …
22 Mar, 2023
New essay on elite athletes
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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 Sport Assoc…
2 Jan, 2023
A warmer year
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It has become something of a common-place for social power-brokers to issue statements to mark the end of an old year and the beginning of a new. Kings do it, prime ministers and presidents do it, and…
14 Jan, 2021
CfP Event and Becoming: the Inaugural Ereignis Conference
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June 11, 2021. How does the event puncture the smooth flow of becoming? And what is it like, the event in which we become ourselves? These are among our key questions in this first Ereignis conference…
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…
12 Nov, 2016
Spinoza on Descartes
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The mind has greater power over the emotions and is less subject thereto, in so far as it understands all things as necessary.Spinoza, Ethics, V It is thoroughly established that Baruch Spinoza drew …
3 Nov, 2016
Nietzsche’s rejection of happiness
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Nietzsche makes no secret of that it is Schopenhauer – Europe’s great pessimist – that is his true and most magnificent teacher. It is from him that Nietzsche got his idea of the will as essential to …
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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