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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 work of the Baroque masters, such as the vanitas of Danish poet Thomas Kingo, serves to remind us of our post-modern fix. They signify our in-ability to realize the potentialities of our social circumstances. May ne…