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

by EricDunning (Author), NorbertElias (Author)

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2008
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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.

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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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: 20 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 1904558437
ISBN 13: 9781904558439

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

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