Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters

Kingwell, Mark

ISBN 10: 1771961538 / ISBN 13: 9781771961530

Published by Biblioasis, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters
• Publisher: Biblioasis
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771961538
• ISBN 13: 9781771961530
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure―a very successful batter manages a base hit in just three of every ten attempts―Mark Kingwell argues that there is no better tutor of human failure’s enduring significance than this strange, crooked game of base, where geometry becomes poetry.

Weaving elements of memoir, philosophical reflection, sports writing, and humour, Fail Better is an intellectual love letter to baseball by one of North America’s most engaging philosophers. Kingwell illustrates complex concepts like theoretically infinite game-space, “time out of time,” and the rules of civility with accessible examples drawn from the game, its history, and his own halting efforts to hit ‘em where they ain’t. Beyond a “Beckett meets baseball” study in failure, Kingwell crafts a thoughtful appreciation of why sports matter, and how they change our vision of the world.

Never pretentious, always entertaining, Fail Better is set to be the homerun non-fiction title of the season.

About the Author

Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine in New York. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books of political, cultural and aesthetic theory, including the national bestsellers Better Living (1998), The World We Want (2000), Concrete Reveries (2008), and Glenn Gould (2009). In addition to many scholarly articles, his writing has appeared in more than 40 mainstream magazines and newspapers. His most recent books are the essay collections Unruly Voices (2012) and Measure Yourself Against the Earth (2015).