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)…

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)…

Contemporary debates on nationalism are caught in a recurring impasse: sociologists in the tradition of Elias treat national attachment as a matter of individual choice — an identity that can, in principle, be supersede…

This essay investigates whether the term national signification may serve better than the more common national identity to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves and t…

This paper investigates whether the term *national signification* may serve better than the more common *national identity* to describe how sports people variously enrol and reference the nation to position themselves a…

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…

Ingmar Bergman's middle years -- from the late 1950s to the early 1970s -- were a period of great creativity, but also of irreparable destruction on a private and artistic level. This paper takes stock of a film immedia…

Since October last year Lebanon has seen nation-wide protests against deteriorating standards of living, dubious governance, and a collapsing economy. Sharif Abdunnur, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bal…

The present text shows that the prevailing view of Martin Heidegger's approach to society and technology is not only based on prejudice, but more importantly works to obscure a more relevant perception of reality. Heide…

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…

In his influential study Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson makes the claim that a novel conception of time is inaugurated by the introduction of nations: in contrast to the agrarian sense of time as cyclical and c…

This essay discusses how spectacular sports are framed in a national, epic world of fathers, firsts and bests, and put to use in regulating desire by narrating the fundamental fantasies that hold the subject together. S…

The present study is an interrogation of theories of culture and nation in the context of spectacular sports. It proposes a view of nationalism as discourses that articulate and produce nations through narrative acts. A…