Soccer and Culture: Aesthetics for the Masses

Abstract

In this brief account, I argue that the ubiquity of soccer should not be taken lightly. In fact, there may be a strong connection between soccer and aesthetics and by extension the “high” culture of art itself. I develop this argument based on a formalist account and then also make the claim that soccer is well appointed as a mechanism that is also instrumental in other social-cultural dimensions: politics; religion, philosophical thought and in envisaging a new world, marked by its innocence and creativity.