Quest for excitement: sport and leisure in the civilising process
Auteur :
Elias, Norbert
Éditeur :
University College Dublin Press
ISBN :
9781904558439
Date de publication :
9 oct. 2008
Dimensions :
2,4 x 1,7 x 0,4 cm
Poids :
680 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Irlande
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.