João Tiago Lima

«É espantoso que a bibliografia sobre as possíveis relações entre esportes, filosofia e/ou literatura seja tão escassa no chamado “país do futebol”. Tanto mais que, nas últimas décadas, as ciências ditas humanas foram invadidas por uma saudável vaga de estudos transdisciplinares. Se, por exemplo, o corpo e suas afecções têm dado matéria para abordagens em diversos setores de investigação, como artes, literatura e filosofia, por que ali onde o volume corporal mais se encontra em evidência – os desportos – as pesquisas acadêmicas híbridas são escassas? (...) A coletânea de ensaios publicados por João Tiago Lima sobre o assunto preenche com brilho parte dessa imperdoável lacuna e decerto estimulará o desenvolvimento de outros estudos do mesmo gênero».[do prefácio de Evando Nascimento]

This book brings together fifteen essays written on very varied occasions, most of them previously appearing in scattered publications. However, in all chapters, or at least in those that make up the first part of this edition, the reader will find a common thread, as they are always essays or interpretations, more or less broad, written about or under the pretext of Eduardo Lourenço's thoughts. Thus, it is possible to say that "Falar Sempre de Outra Coisa" corresponds to a second stage of our investigations into the work of one who, in the words of António Marques, «is the most universal Portuguese philosopher».

Although sport has always played an important role in my life, whether as a modest tennis player or as a passionate fan, especially of football and rugby, the truth is that I only made it a subject of study and more systematic reflection, when I started teaching at the University of Évora various subjects from the epistemological area of ​​philosophy to Physical Education and Sport courses. It soon became clear to me that the area of ​​sports philosophy is a huge field of research possibilities that I have been trying to develop ever since. In this context, the phenomenological aesthetics of Merleau-Ponty and Dufrenne play a decisive role in the approach I seek to carry out in this volume.