Excitement processes
Contents
Reconstructing Elias's work on leisure, sports and the body
Dieter Reicher, Jan Haut, Raul Sánchez García, Paddy Dolan
3-20
Notice on spontaneity and self-consciousness
Elias's early approach to leisure activities
Dieter Reicher
77-94
Civilization, happiness and the thinking millipede
a commentary on Norbert Elias's spontaneity and self-consciousness
Helmut Kuzmics
95-117
Completing sportisation
Elias on the diffusion and differentiation of sport in "modern" society
Jan Haut
137-152
Elias on the development of modern sport
empirical error, interpretive insight and conceptual clarification
Dominic Malcolm
153-169
Boxing and duelling
critical remarks on Elias on violence and state-formation from a historical perspective
James Sharpe
217-233
Class relations and the development of boxing
Norbert Elias on sportisation processes in England and France
Paddy Dolan
235-254
Elias's contribution to the sociology of the body
the rediscovery of the hinge
Michael Atkinson
287-303