Norbert Elias (Late of Universities of Leicester, Ghana, Frankfurt

Gebundenes Buch

Quest for Excitement

Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process Volume 7

Beschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Collected Works of Norbert Elias
• Verlag: University College Dublin Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781904558439
• ISBN-10: 1904558437
• Artikelnr.: 24435830