Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process (Collected Works of Norbert Elias) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process (Collected Works of Norbert Elias) Book

Argues that in highly constrained 'civilised' societies sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities - are to be understood not in terms of 'relaxation' but rather of the need for pleasurable excitement and its pleasurable resolution.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Elias effectively founded the modern sociology of sport in collaboration with Eric Dunning in the 1960s and 1970s. They argue that in highly constrained, 'civilized' societies, sports are to be understood not in terms of 'relaxation' but rather of...

  • Pickabook

    Norbert Elias, Eric Dunning, Eric Dunning (Editor)

  • 1904558437
  • 9781904558439
  • Norbert Elias, Eric Dunning
  • 20 September 2008
  • University College Dublin Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 336
  • 2nd Revised edition
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