Steffen Borge is Professor of Philosophy at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø.
There are striking, fundamental similarities between sports and the arts and equally striking and fundamental differences. Some of them are surprising; few have been explored as thoroughly and perceptively as Borge does. The Philosophy of Football will certainly fascinate lovers of the beautiful game, but reflective aficionados of theatre or baseball, fiction or footraces, ritual, wrestling, chimpanzees, chess, dance, Duchamp, hockey and cockfights will find much of interest here as well. - Prof Kendall L Walton, University of Michigan, USA