Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process (Volume 7) (The Collected Works of Norbert Elias)
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Author(s)Elias, Norbert
PublisherUniversity College Dublin Press
ISBN / ASIN1904558437
ISBN-139781904558439
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Sales Rank16,130
CategoryHardcover
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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 Dublin's Collected Works of Norbert Elias series. ""A laudable endeavour."" Canadian Journal of Sociology
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