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The passion of Marc van den Bossche "How strong is the lonely cyclist?" a singing bard once wondered. "Very strong," answers the cycling philosopher Marc Van den Bossche, who rides his own Tour of Flanders several times a year. Racing bike and mountain bike receive a status at Van den Bossche that is comparable to the sofa of a psychoanalyst: they are instruments that stir up the mind, make it bubble up, let it effervesce, 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 the sensuality and the intoxication that comes with it. A philosophy professor who likes to immerse himself in a mud bath and then also knows how to use it philosophically - this is not very common. But it is very contagious. Van den Bossche alternates his own experiences, training tips and cycling stories of Peter Winnen and Lance Armstrong with philosophical exposés about the importance of the body for our thinking - about how that body itself thinks. "Put it on my gravestone: He thought per vélo."
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