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Excitement Processes

Norbert Elias's unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture

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Editors:
  1. Jan Haut

    1. Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  2. Paddy Dolan

    1. Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

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  3. Dieter Reicher

    1. Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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  4. Raúl Sánchez García

    1. Universidad Europea Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  • First publication of texts of Elias about body and sports

  • Based on the discovery of several manuscripts, notes and correspondence in the Nachlass of Norbert Elias (hosted in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach)

  • Introduced and contextualized by international experts

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reconstructing Elias’s Work on Leisure, Sports and the Body

      • Dieter Reicher, Jan Haut, Raúl Sánchez García, Paddy Dolan
      Pages 3-20

  6. Section 4: The Body

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275
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    2. The ‘Rediscovery’ of the Body

      • Norbert Elias
      Pages 277-285

    3. Elias’s Contribution to the Sociology of the Body: The Rediscovery of the Hinge

      • Michael Atkinson
      Pages 287-303

  7. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305
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About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Jan Haut

  • Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

    Paddy Dolan

  • Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Dieter Reicher

  • Universidad Europea Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Raúl Sánchez García

About the editors

Dr. Jan Haut is researcher and lecturer at the Department of Sports Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany).
Dr. Paddy Dolan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).
Dr. Dieter Reicher is associated professor at the University of Graz (Austria).
Dr. Raúl Sánchez García is lecturer of Sociology of Sport at the Universidad Europea in Madrid (Spain).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Excitement Processes

  • Book Subtitle: Norbert Elias's unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14912-3

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-14911-6Published: 25 July 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-14912-3Published: 18 July 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 322

  • Topics: Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory, Knowledge - Discourse

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