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