What can Philosophical Archaeology tell us about the Crisis of Modern Sport (Pt2)? Dr Sandra Meeuwsen - Meaningful Sport Series

This is the second part of our conversation with Dr Sandra Meeuwsen on her thoughtprovoking PhD work where she used philosophical archaeology to shed light on how modern sport came to have such a contradictory face that is has today.

In the first part, Sandra shared her personal journey of working in the institutions of sport for three decades and started sharing on the methodology and key philosophical ideas informing her PhD work. In this part, we hear more about psychoanalytical theories, Nietzsche’s concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian, and whether and how Sandra sees some hope for a brighter future for modern sport.

Dr Sandra Meeuwsen is a philosopher of sport who worked in various vital positions in sport since the early 1990s. She encountered these contradictions of sport in daily work which led her to embark on a PhD project to understand these issues. She completed her PhD in 2020 at the Faculty of Philosophy and Moral Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels with the thesis "A Critique of Sportive Reason; a philosophical archaeology of modern sport”.

You can find out more about Sandra's work at https://sandrameeuwsen.nl/ and follow her on Twitter @MeeuwsenPhd.

Updates will be added here when Sandra's work is published in English.