Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process (Volume 7) (The Collected Works of Norbert Elias)
Book Details
Author(s)
Elias, Norbert
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
ISBN / ASIN
1904558437
ISBN-13
9781904558439
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#16,130
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Hardcover
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Description
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
