Excitement Processes (eBook)

Norbert Elias's unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture

Jan Haut, Paddy Dolan, Dieter Reicher, Raúl Sánchez García (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
IX, 322 Seiten
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Verlag)
978-3-658-14912-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

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).

Inhalt

Contents 5
Editors and Contributors 7
Part I Introduction 10
Reconstructing Elias’s Work on Leisure, Sports and the Body 11
Editorial Note 24
References 26
Part II Section 1: Leisure and Culture 29
Spontaneity and Self-consciousness 30
A Thought Experiment in the Long-Term Imagination About Leisure 31
The Pressure of Rationality on the Moralisation of Spontaneous Leisure Enjoyments 34
Beyond Kitsch and Romanticism: From Stone Age Dancing to Jazz and Modern Art 39
Reconciling Spontaneity and Self-consciousness: Education for Controlled Decontrolling 77
Notice on Spontaneity and Self-consciousness: Elias’s Early Approach to Leisure Activities 84
The Problem of Dating the Manuscript 85
Contents of Spontaneity 87
The Intellectual Context 91
Two Theoretic Innovations of Spontaneity 97
Summary and Conclusion 99
References 100
Civilization, Happiness and the Thinking Millipede: A Commentary on Norbert Elias’s Spontaneity and Self-consciousness 102
The Core Idea of the Lecture and Its Position in Elias’s Known Works 104
‘The Price of Civilisation’ in the Utopia of a Modern Affluent Society: Macro-Sociological Comparisons and Critique 111
The Message of Spontaneity Today: 50 Years After 119
References 122
Part III Section 2: Sportisation and ‘Modernisation’ 125
Fragments on Sportisation Norbert Elias 126
Sportisation in Nineteenth Century 127
The Hambledon Club 134
Plan 137
Completing Sportisation: Elias on the Diffusion and Differentiation of Sport in ‘Modern’ Society 142
The English Origins of Sport: Initial Questions and Answers Published 143
Diffusion and Variation in the Nineteenth Century 147
Different Lines of Development 149
Conclusion 152
References 156
Elias on the Development of Modern Sport: Empirical Error, Interpretive Insight and Conceptual Clarification 158
Elias and the Development of Cricket: Empirical Review 160
Elias and the Development of Cricket: Conceptual Review 164
The Contribution to an Eliasian Perspective on the Development of Modern Sport 167
The Significance of the Fragments on the Stokvis–Malcolm Debate 170
References 172
Part IV Section 3: Sport, Violence and State Formation 175
Boxing and Duelling Norbert Elias 176
Boxing and Duelling: Critical Remarks on Elias on Violence and State-Formation from a Historical Perspective 219
References 234
Class Relations and the Development of Boxing: Norbert Elias on Sportisation Processes in England and France 236
Introduction to Elias’s Manuscript 236
Class Relations and Hybridisation 238
Gambling, Fair Play and the Entrepreneurs of Boxing 240
Resemblance Between Published and Unpublished Works 246
Figurational Research on Boxing 247
Histories of Savate and Boxing: National Differences 249
Conclusion 252
References 254
Revisiting Duelling and Fencing in the Sociology of Norbert Elias 256
Duelling, Fencing and ‘Quest for Excitement’ 262
‘Royal Mechanism’ and the Transition from Duelling to Early Courtier Fencing 263
The Development of Modern Sport Fencing During the Nineteenth Century 267
Concluding Remarks 271
References 273
Part V Section 4: The Body 275
The ‘Rediscovery’ of the Body Norbert Elias 276
Elias’s Contribution to the Sociology of the Body: The Rediscovery of the Hinge 285
The Hinge 290
Applications of the Hinge 295
Future Directions 297
References 299
Part VI Conclusion 302
Conclusion 303
References 310
Index 311

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2017
• Zusatzinfo: IX, 322 p.
• Verlagsort: Wiesbaden
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cultural Sociology • figurational sociology • Leisure • Social Theory • Sociology of the body • Sport History
• ISBN-10: 3-658-14912-4 / 3658149124
• ISBN-13: 978-3-658-14912-3 / 9783658149123