The Passion of Marc Van Den Bossche: Cycling

Racing bikes and mountain bikes are given a status by Van den Bossche that is comparable to a psychoanalyst's couch: they are instruments that loosen the thinking, make it bubble up, let it fizz, while he tries to push the boundaries of the body again and again. His passion has everything to do with what he calls hermeneutics, the art of explaining one's own physicality. He is concerned with cultivating sensuality and the intoxication that goes with it. A philosophy professor who happily immerses himself in a mud bath and then also manages to do something philosophical with it - that is not very common. But it is particularly infectious. Van den Bossche alternates his own experiences, training tips and cycling stories from Peter Winnen and Lance Armstrong with philosophical exposés about the importance of the body for our thinking - about how that body itself thinks.