Excitement Processes Norbert Elias's unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Haut, Jan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dolan, Paddy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Reicher, Dieter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sánchez García, Raúl (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Culture.; Sociology.; Sociology of Culture.; Sociological Theory.; Knowledge - Discourse.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Leisure and culture
• Sportisation and 'modernisation'
• Sport, violence and state formation
• Sociology of the body.