Results for “ritual”

Publications and talks 5

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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2021
Inscriptions
After religion: the commitment and love of This Life. Review of This Life: secular faith and spiritual freedom, by Mart…
Inscriptions

Review of Hägglund, Martin (2019), This Life: secular faith and spiritual freedom, Anchor Books: New York.

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2020
Article
AFK: reclaiming the holy through art
Inscriptions

Answering to the claim that our contemporary era has lost a connection to the domain of the sacred René Girard held that, contra Sigmund Freud, the myth of Oedipus was not primarily a story of patricide, but a hidden na…

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2001
Peer-reviewed
Soccer rites
Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies
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Blog posts 3

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 …
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…
13 Nov, 2016
Dressage and illusio
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What should we make of the terms dressage and illusio in the context of sports? Dressage is a way to make bodies submit, to domesticate and somatise, so that they can be governed and mastered. In spo…
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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