Excitement Processes

Part I. Introduction

1. Reconstructing Elias’s Work on Leisure, Sports and the Body
Dieter Reicher, Jan Haut, Raúl Sánchez García, Paddy Dolan

Part II. Section 1: Leisure and Culture

2. Spontaneity and Self-consciousness
Norbert Elias

3. Notice on Spontaneity and Self-consciousness: Elias’s Early Approach to Leisure Activities
Dieter Reicher

4. Civilization, Happiness and the Thinking Millipede: A Commentary on Norbert Elias’s Spontaneity and Self-consciousness

Helmut Kuzmics

Part III. Section 2: Sportisation and ‘Modernisation’

5. Fragments on Sportisation
Norbert Elias

6. Completing Sportisation: Elias on the Diffusion and Differentiation of Sport in ‘Modern’ Society
Jan Haut

7. Elias on the Development of Modern Sport: Empirical Error, Interpretive Insight and Conceptual Clarification
Dominic Malcolm

Part IV. Section 3: Sport, Violence and State Formation

8. Boxing and Duelling
Norbert Elias

9. Boxing and Duelling: Critical Remarks on Elias on Violence and State-Formation from a Historical Perspective
James Sharpe

10. Class Relations and the Development of Boxing: Norbert Elias on Sportisation Processes in England and France
Paddy Dolan

11. Revisiting Duelling and Fencing in the Sociology of Norbert Elias
Raúl Sánchez García

Part V. Section 4: The Body

12. The ‘Rediscovery’ of the Body

13. Elias’s Contribution to the Sociology of the Body: The Rediscovery of the Hinge
Michael Atkinson

Part VI. Conclusion

14. Conclusion
Stephen Mennell

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory, Knowledge - Discourse