Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process

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.

• | Author: Norbert Elias
• | Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 09, 2008
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781904558439
• | ISBN-10: 1904558437