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Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process (Collected Works Norbert Elias) (The Collected Works of Norbert Elias)
Quest for Excitement Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process - Collected Works Norbert Elias - The Collected Works of Norbert Elias
Author: Norbert Elias
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 the need for pleasurable excitement and its pleasurable resolution. Volume 7 in University College ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781904558439
ISBN-10: 1904558437
Publication Date: 4/30/2009
Pages: 336
Edition: 2nd
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Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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