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Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which
various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical
dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a
variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football
impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research
methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the
contributors scrutinize not only the social fields of football fans
and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are
embedded, but also other actors beyond the pitch, and the
possibilities for both agency and subversion. Taking into account
processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and
migration, the collection offers fresh insights into fan identity
formations and practices and highlights the importance of
anthropology's self-reflexive and actor-centred perspective.
Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which
various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical
dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a
variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football
impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research
methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the
contributors scrutinize not only the social fields of football fans
and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are
embedded, but also other actors beyond the pitch, and the
possibilities for both agency and subversion. Taking into account
processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and
migration, the collection offers fresh insights into fan identity
formations and practices and highlights the importance of
anthropology's self-reflexive and actor-centred perspective.
Dialectics beyond Dialectics is a study of contemporary French
philosophy from Bataille to Derrida. It analyses, on the first
level of generalization, the decomposition of Hegelianism
understood as philosophy of totality. Many French philosophers of
the 20th century deconstruct Hegelian dialectics and harshly
criticize the very idea of totality as either dangerous or
impossible. The thesis of the book is that, on doing so, they do
not really break with dialectics, but transform it. On the second
level of generalization, the issue of the book is modernity and the
thesis is that transformations of dialectics reveal transformations
of modern consciousness which - despite hasty declarations on the
end of modernity - still remains ours.
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