Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process - The Collected Works of Norbert Elias - Elias, Norbert (Late of Universities of Leicester, Ghana, Frankfurt and Bielefeld) - Books - University College Dublin Press - 9781904558439 - October 9, 2008
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Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process - The Collected Works of Norbert Elias 2 Revised edition

Elias, Norbert (Late of Universities of Leicester, Ghana, Frankfurt and Bielefeld)

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Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process - The Collected Works of Norbert Elias 2 Revised edition

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.


352 pages, illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 9, 2008
ISBN13 9781904558439
Publishers University College Dublin Press
Pages 336
Dimensions 240 × 166 × 36 mm   ·   678 g
Language English  
Editor Dunning, Eric

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