Agonist Spring 2020

The Agonist
Call for Papers
Nietzsche and Sport | Spring 2020
Guest Editor: Dr. Martine Prange
Although Nietzsche does not specifically discuss sports in his works, much
of his writing and ideas revolve around sport-related themes such as competition,
play, body and askesis, and ecstasy (or, the Dionysian). Competition,
or agon, is a running theme in Nietzsche’s works; play or playfulness has intrigued
the young Nietzsche since he became familiar with the pre-Socratics,
especially Heraclitus; the question of the body and all the related phenomena
remain crucial to his works; and the Dionysian is a central concept from his
first to one of his last published works. Furthermore, Nietzsche’s critique
of Western experience of spectacle sheds light on sport spectacles and their
problems in our age. Finally, we can view sports as fields of power and power
relations and examine to what extent sport can be construed as an arena for
the overhuman. How did Nietzsche view the sporting culture of the 19th
century? How would he view our sporting culture today? This issue of The
Agonist is dedicated to examining these and other sport related themes in Nietzsche
and post-Nietzschean literature, including authors, thinkers, sport
philosophers and movements influenced by his ideas.
Please see The Agonist Submission Guidelines at http://agonist.nietzschecircle.com/wp/submission-policy/.
Please submit your abstract to nceditors@nietzschecircle.com.
Abstract deadline: April 1, 2020; Essay deadline:
June 1, 2020
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