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Publications and talks 2
2023
Peer-reviewed
Review of Philosophy of Sport: Core Readings, 2nd edition, edited by Jason Holt
Teaching Philosophy
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…
Blog posts 5
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…
8 Sep, 2023
New novels: The HoF circle
In recent weeks, I have been reading two books by authors affiliated with the art collective and and literature center House of Foundation (HoF) in Moss, Norway. In addition to several smaller studios…
12 Jun, 2023
Welcome speech at the 2023 Ereignis Conference
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 Nov, 2016
Nietzsche’s rejection of happiness
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 …
1 Nov, 2016
Gelassenheit and The Shining
The experience of releasement Martin Heidegger develops in the concept of Gelassenheit has a precise analogy in the film The Shining (directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Stephen King, released in …
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.
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