Dr Andrew Edgar

BA (Lancaster) MA DPhil (Sussex)

Emeritus Reader

School of English, Communication and Philosophy

: edgar@cardiff.ac.uk
: 1.34, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

: Media commentator

I am part of the School's Philosophy group.

My research interests cover twentieth century German philosophy, and in particular the work of T.W.Adorno and Jürgen Habermas. I also work in the philosophy of sport and play, and I am editor of the journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

After undergraduate study at Lancaster University, I undertook an MA and then DPhil at Sussex University, before lecturing for a year at the then Newcastle Polytechnic. I came to Cardiff, as a lecturer in Philosophy, in 1990.

I am currently a deputy-head of the School (ENCAP) and Head of Philosophy.

2017

Edgar, A. 2017. Chronic disorders of consciousness and Homo Sacer. In: Kakuk, P. ed. Bioethics and Biopolitics: Theories, Applications and Connections. Springer, pp. 47-58.
Edgar, A. R. 2017. The philosophy of sport in interesting times. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 11(2), pp. 153-154. (10.1080/17511321.2017.1309734)

2016

Edgar, A. R. 2016. The Athletic Body. Health Care Analysis (10.1007/s10728-016-0332-4)
Edgar, A. R. 2016. Three ways of watching a sports video. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 10(4), pp. 403-415. (10.1080/17511321.2016.1210208)
Pattison, S. and Edgar, A. R. 2016. Prospects for flourishing in contemporary health care. Health Care Analysis 24(2), pp. 101-104. (10.1007/s10728-016-0316-4)
Edgar, A. R. and Pattison, S. 2016. Flourishing in health care. Health Care Analysis 24(2), pp. 161-173. (10.1007/s10728-016-0315-5)
Edgar, A. R. 2016. Personal identity and the massively multiplayer online world. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 10(1), pp. 51-66. (10.1080/17511321.2016.1168478)
Lopez Frias, F. J. and Edgar, A. R. 2016. Hermeneutics and sport. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 10(4), pp. 343-348. (10.1080/17511321.2016.1272133)

2015

Edgar, A. R., Kitzinger, C. and Kitzinger, J. 2015. Interpreting chronic disorders of consciousness: medical science and family experience. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 21(3), pp. 374-379. (10.1111/jep.12220)
Edgar, A. R. 2015. Aesthetics of sport. In: McNamee, N. and Morgan, W. J. eds. Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport. London: Routledge, pp. 69-80.
Edgar, A. R. 2015. Football and the poetics of space. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 9(2), pp. 153-165. (10.1080/17511321.2015.1030439)
Edgar, A. R. 2015. The philosophy of sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport 32(15), pp. 1804-1807. (10.1080/09523367.2015.1108309)

2013

Edgar, A. R. 2013. Sport and Art: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Sport. Ethics and Sport. Abingdon: Routledge.
Edgar, A. R. 2013. Sport and art: An essay in the hermeneutics of sport. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7(1), pp. 1-9. (10.1080/17511321.2013.761879)
Edgar, A. R. 2013. Sport and philosophy. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7(1), pp. 10-29. (10.1080/17511321.2013.761882)
Edgar, A. R. 2013. Sportworld. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7(1), pp. 30-54. (10.1080/17511321.2013.761881)
Edgar, A. R. 2013. The birth of sport. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7(1), pp. 55-79. (10.1080/17511321.2013.761883)
Edgar, A. R. 2013. The aesthetics of sport. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7(1), pp. 80-99. (10.1080/17511321.2013.761885)
Edgar, A. R. 2013. The modernism of sport. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7(1), pp. 121-139. (10.1080/17511321.2012.761887)
Edgar, A. R. 2013. A hermeneutics of sport. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7(1), pp. 140-167. (10.1080/17511321.2012.761893)
Edgar, A. R. 2013. Conclusion. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 7(1), pp. 168-171. (10.1080/17511321.2013.761895)

2012

Edgar, A. R. 2012. Sport as liturgy: Towards a radical orthodoxy of sport. Studies in Christian Ethics 25(1), pp. 20-34. (10.1177/0953946811428263)
Edgar, A. R. 2012. The aesthetics of the Olympic art competitions. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 39(2), pp. 185-199. (10.1080/00948705.2012.725903)
Edgar, A. R. 2012. Age, dignity and social policy. In: Lesser, H. ed. Justice for Older People. Value Inquiry Book Vol. 245. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 15-33.

2011

Edgar, A. R. 2011. The Uncanny, alienation and strangeness: The entwining of political and medical metaphor. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 14(3), pp. 313-322. (10.1007/s11019-010-9302-z)
Edgar, A. R. 2011. Professional values, aesthetic values, and the ends of trade. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 14(2), pp. 195-201. (10.1007/s11019-010-9298-4)
Edgar, A. R. 2011. Universal pragmatics. In: Hogan, P. C. ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 886-887.
Edgar, A. R. 2011. Ideal speech situation. In: Hogan, P. C. ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 368-369.
Edgar, A. R. and Pattison, S. 2011. Integrity and the Moral Complexity of Professional Practice. Nursing Philosophy 12(2), pp. 94-106. (10.1111/j.1466-769X.2011.00488.x)
Edgar, A. R. and Pattison, S. 2011. The problem with integrity [Editorial]. Nursing Philosophy 12(1), pp. 81-82.

2010

Edgar, A. R. 2010. Why do changes in society and institutions matter for professional values?. In: Pattison, S. et al. eds. Emerging Values in Health Care: The Challenge for Professionals. London: Jessica Kingsley, pp. 43-61.

2009

Edgar, A. R. 2009. The Challenge of Transplants to an Intersubjectively Established Sense of Personal Identity. Health Care Analysis 17(2), pp. 123-33. (10.1007/s10728-009-0119-y)
Edgar, A. R. 2009. The hermeneutic challenge of genetic engineering: Habermas and the transhumanists. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 12(2), pp. 157-167. (10.1007/s11019-009-9188-9)
Edgar, A. R. 2009. Genetic information and public opinion. In: Widdows, H. and Mullen, C. eds. The Governance of Genetic Information: Who Decides?. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 178-200.

2008

Edgar, A. R. and Sedgwick, P. R. eds. 2008. Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge.
Holm, S. and Edgar, A. R. 2008. Best interest: a philosophical critique. Health Care Analysis 16(3), pp. 197-207.

2007

Edgar, A. R. 2007. The art of useless suffering. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 10(4) (10.1007/s11019-007-9082-2)

2006

Edgar, A. R. 2006. Adorno and the Frankurt School. In: Knellwolf, C. and Norris, C. eds. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 9. Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 109-120.

2005

Edgar, A. R. 2005. The expert patient: Illness as practice. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 8(2), pp. 165-171. (10.1007/s11019-005-2277-5)
Edgar, A. R. 2005. The philosophy of Habermas. Continental European Philosophy. Chesham: Acumen.

2004

Edgar, A. R. 2004. A response to Nordenfelt's 'Varieties of Dignity'. Health Care Analysis 12(2), pp. 83-89. (10.1023/B:HCAN.0000041184.82006.8b)

2003

Edgar, A. R. 2003. Velázquez and the representation of dignity. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 6(2), pp. 111-121. (10.1023/A:1024162811282)

2002

Edgar, A. R. and Salek, S. 2002. Pharmaceutical ethics. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

2001

Edgar, A. R. and Sedgwick, P. eds. 2001. Cultural theory: The key thinkers. Routledge Key Guides. London: Routledge.

2000

Edgar, A. R. 2000. Ethics, rationing and the NHS. In: Dixon, M. and Sweeney, K. eds. A Practical Guide to Primary Care Groups and Trusts. Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical, pp. 15-24.

1999

Edgar, A. R. and Sedgwick, P. 1999. Key concepts in cultural theory. Routledge Key Guides. London: Routledge.
Edgar, A. R. 1999. Culture and criticism: Adorno. In: Glendinning, S. ed. The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philopsophy. London: Routledge, pp. 448-460.
Edgar, A. R. 1999. Adorno and musical analysis. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57(4), pp. 439-449. (10.2307/432150)
Edgar, A. R. 1999. Adorno and the question of Schubert's sexuality. New Formations 38, pp. 45-53.
Edgar, A. R. 1999. The Health Service as Civil Association. In: Parker, M. ed. Ethics and Community in the Health Care Professions. London: Routledge, pp. 15-29.

1998

Edgar, A. R. 1998. Health care allocation, public consultation and the concept of 'Health'. Health Care Analysis 6(3), pp. 193-198. (10.1007/BF02678104)
Edgar, A. R.et al. 1998. The ethical QALY: ethical Issues in healthcare resource allocations. Haslemere, UK: Euromed Communications.

1997

Edgar, A. R. 1997. Music and silence. In: Jaworski, A. ed. Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics Vol. 10. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 311-328.
Edgar, A. R. 1997. Discourse ethics and the quality adjusted life year. Journal D'Economie Medicale 15(1), pp. 55-64.
Edgar, A. R. 1997. Sport, ethics of. In: Chadwick, R. ed. Enyclopedia of Applied Ethics., Vol. 4. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 207-223.

1995

Edgar, A. R. 1995. Weber, Nietzsche and music. In: Sedgwick, P. R. ed. Nietzsche: A Critical Reader. Blackwell Critical Reader Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 84-103.
Edgar, A. R. 1995. Weighting health states and strong evaluation. Bioethics 9(3), pp. 240-251. (10.1111/j.1467-8519.1995.tb00358.x)
Sedgwick, P. R. and Edgar, A. R. 1995. Adorno, Oakshott and the voice of poetry. In: Adam, B. and Allan, S. eds. Theorizing Culture: An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism. London: Routledge, pp. 100-112.

1994

Edgar, A. R. 1994. Confidentiality and personal identity. Nursing Ethics 1(2), pp. 86-95. (10.1177/096973309400100204)

1993

Hume, D. Copley, S. and Edgar, A. R. eds. 1993. Selected essays. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1992

Edgar, A. R. 1992. Objectivity, bias and truth. In: Chadwick, R. and Belsey, A. eds. Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media. Professional Ethics London and New York: Routledge, pp. 112-129.
Edgar, A. R. 1992. Kant's two interpretations of Genesis. Literature and Theology 6(3), pp. 280-290. (10.1093/litthe/6.3.280)

1990

Edgar, A. R. 1990. An introduction to Adorno's aesthetics. British Journal of Aesthetics 30(1), pp. 46-56. (10.1093/bjaesthetics/30.1.46)

My doctoral work at Sussex University was on the German philosopher T.W. Adorno's aesthetics and sociology of culture. I have continued to publish work on Adorno (and especially Adorno's musicology). I have written a monograph and an introductory book of 'Key Concepts' on the German philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas, who was once Adorno's research assistent.

In addition to this interest in German philosophy, I have, during my time at Cardiff, been involved in a number of European Commission funded research projects, that have looked as various problems in the field of bioethics, including issues of health care resource allocation, dignity of older patients, and the problems of living with chronic illness.

My main area of interest is now the philosophy of sport. I have written a monograph on the relationship between sport and art. I am currently the editor of the journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

Research interests

Philosophy of Sport
Philosophy of Medicine
German Critical Theory
Sociology and Aesthetics of Music