Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me

by Grant Farred

Book Overview

In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, separation, and belonging. Drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of relation and Heideggerian ontology, Farred outlines how various relationships--the significantly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478004703
• ISBN13: 9781478004707
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"