Results for “philosophy of sport”

Publications and talks 17

2025
Talk
Snow blind: on inoperativity and desolation in Askildsen, Fosse, and Naess

From the dead to the living. Jon Fosse’s Nobel Prize in literature can on the heels of a lifelong investigation of the possibility we have for communicating with the dead. His texts and the characters that inhabit them …

2025
Talk
Deep ecological sport? Notes toward a critique of Næss

Gunnar Breivik has proposed a set of guidelines for outdoor activities that are similar in certain respects to sports, and that satisfy what Breivik refers to as ‘criteria for ecological awareness’ (2020). He takes the …

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)…

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)…

2023
Peer-reviewed
Review of Philosophy of Sport: Core Readings, 2nd edition, edited by Jason Holt
Teaching Philosophy
2023
Peer-reviewed
Bourdieu's field theory revisited: a case for 'national signification'
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

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…

2022
Talk
Bourdieu's field theory revisited: a case for 'national signification'

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…

2021
Talk
Being/ruptured: Bruce Lee's liberation as event

This paper explores the tension between the perceived “wholeness” of Bruce Lee as a cultural icon and the inherent trauma and fragmentation of the human experience. While sociological readings often frame Lee as a symbo…

2021
Peer-reviewed
The interpassive roar: the canned spectators of lock-down
Do Desporto / On Sports: theoria vs praxis

This paper introduces the concept of the interpassive spectator into the field of sports philosophy. It examines the phenomenon of "canned spectators" -- pre-recorded audience sounds edited to respond to live, televised…

2020
Talk
The editorial roar: the sounds of spectators at elite football events under lockdown
2014
Peer-reviewed
Moving the posts: two models of sports research
Cultural and Religious Studies

This essay presents two models of sports research, one characterised by a didactic and normative relation to its object, while wedded to a view of language characterised by a transparent and non-mediated relation betwee…

2014
Peer-reviewed
National, authentic, excessive: toward a globalized body of sports
Altitude
2008
Talk
From games to play: sports as art forms
2005
Article
Signifying the body: nation, sport and the cultural analysis of {Pierre Bourdieu}

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…

2003
Talk
Soccer as game, soccer as play: towards a reading of mass mediated culture past structuralism
2001
Peer-reviewed
Soccer rites
Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies
1998
Talk
Nationalising soccer: towards an analysis of sports discourses

Blog posts 2

11 Oct, 2023
Review of reader in sports philosophy is out
My review of Jason Holt’s new edited collection of essays on sports philosophy is out and in print in the journal Teaching Philosophy 46, no. 3. In the review I write that Philosophy of Sport: Core Re…
22 Mar, 2023
New essay on elite athletes
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…
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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