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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)
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)
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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