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Should Thierry Henry be a handball player?
(Or do the ends justify the means?)
Why do we say “We won! We won!” while we were not on the field?”
(Or is soccer the opium of the people?)
Would the game’s outcome have been the same if I hadn’t watched it?
(Or on destiny and freedom)
The 2011 FIFA World Cup will bring together a considerable number bodies and souls.No one will be spared – not even philosophers. It was high time to tackle two common prejudices: philosophy’s elitism as well as soccer’s unrefinement. Faithful to the spirit of his first book, How could I ever believe in Father Christmas? (Max Milo Editions, 2009), Gilles Vervisch settles to dismantle these barriers. Focusing on purely pragmatic questions as the starting point for his thought, the author draws the lines of a deep reasoning, leading the reader to easily (re-)discover wide philosophical concepts. This brilliant and funny text may well awaken – and reconcile – the athlete and the philosopher that lie dormant within every one of us.
Born in 1974, Gilles Vervisch holds an agrégation in Philosophy. He followed a preparatory class before attending lectures at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris. Native to Rouen, the author now teaches philosophy at the lycée Paul-Émile Victor in Osny, in the Parisian suburbs. He is the author of one published book, How could I ever believe in Father Christmas ?(Max Milo Editions, 2009).
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