Research Catalog

Title

Excitement processes : Norbert Elias's unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture / Jan Haut, Paddy Dolan, Dieter Reicher, Raúl Sánchez García, editors.

Author

Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990

Publication

• Wiesbaden, Germany : Springer VS, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Haut, Jan
• Dolan, Paddy
• Reicher, Dieter
• Sánchez García, Raúl

Description

ix, 322 pages; 21 cm

Summary

The book focuses on major aspects of Norbert Elias's social theory through research on supposed "minor" topics, such as manners, sports, leisure and cultural practices. While many of his publications became essential for scholars in the different disciplines concerned, the development of the figurational approach towards these fields was not always completed. The edited volume picks up some lose ends by including archive manuscripts by Elias on the genesis of sport, developments of cultural practices, and the sociology of the body, which are published here for the very first time. Based on critical reviews of these texts, international experts show how the new material adds up to Elias's oeuvre and how it can be fruitfully applied to current research.

Subject

Sports > Sociological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Introduction -- Reconstructing Elias' work on leisure, sports and the body -- Part II. Section 1: leisure and culture -- Spontaneity and self-consciousness -- Notice on Spontaneity and self-consciousness: Elias' early approach to leisure activities -- Civilization, happiness and the thinking millipede: a commentary on Norbert Elias' Spontaneity and self-consciousness -- Part III. Section 2: sportisation and 'modernisation' -- Fragments on sportisation -- Competing sportisation: Elias on the diffusion and differentiation of sport in 'modern' society -- Elias on the development of modern sport: empirical error, interpretive insight and conceptual clarification -- Part IV. Section 3: sport, violence and state formation -- Boxing and duelling -- Boxing and duelling: critical remarks on Elias on violence and state-formation from a historical perspective -- Class relations and the development of boxing: Norbert Elias on sportisation processes in England and France -- Revisiting duelling and fencing in the sociology of Norbert Elias -- Part V. Section 4: the body -- The 'rediscovery' of the body -- Elias' contribution to the sociology of the body: the rediscovery of the hinge -- Part VI. Conclusion -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 3658149116
• 9783658149116

OCLC

• ocn959593849
• SCSB-14006589

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library