Results for “silence”

Publications and talks 6

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
Concluding words: silence and meaning
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2022
Peer-reviewed
The silence of the educated
Journal of Silence Studies in Education

This essay presents Wolfgang Schirmacher's philosophy of education. As a "living philosopher" Schirmacher's thought should be regarded as standing at a critical and engaged distance to official, consecrated philosophy. …

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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
Peer-reviewed
Holding your tongue: the new language of Silence
Paedagogia Christiana

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…

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2020
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Holding your tongue: the new language of Silence
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Blog posts 6

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 …
14 Sep, 2024
Concluding words: Silence and meaning
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Very briefly to round off this conference and I will just go straight into it. It won’t be very long so that we can have a nice rest all of us.First I will do some pragmatics, even though I’m not the …
28 Mar, 2024
There IS a link between silence and politics
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The critical inflexion of this would amount to something like “for you to hold this post, or achieve this kind of recognition (Bourdieu) you must at least appear to subscribe to our dogma”, and thus r…
7 Dec, 2022
Living philosophy: new essay on Schirmacher’s philosophy of education
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For Wolfgang Schirmacher philosophy has always been as much about “doing” as about “knowing”; the domains of traditional essays and other forms of philosophical praxis are deeply connected. In a new e…
16 Dec, 2017
Video essays on Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer and the insufficiency of modesty:  New video essay on the times and opinions of Arthur Schopenhauer. After 17 years of silence  Schopenhauer decided to participate in a competition…
3 Jul, 2017
Some recent publications
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“Out of time, or Anderson’s national temporality revisited” in Networking Knowledges, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016. This peer-reveiwed paper discusses, among other things, the notion of Messianic time (Walter…
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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