tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33937448225835877282024-03-13T09:54:33.919-07:00ENVELOPE MAGAZINEENVELOPE MAGAZINEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976985471071516086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3393744822583587728.post-65080310117337333512008-10-30T01:09:00.000-07:002008-10-30T01:14:13.234-07:00readings<ul><li>I. Kant, <a href="http://eserver.org/philosophy/kant/what-is-enlightenment.txt">What is Enlightenment?</a></li><li>N. Elias & E. Dunning, <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12103197&tab=holdings?loc=19104#tabs"><span style="font-style: italic;">Quest for excitement: sport and leisure in the civilizing process </span></a></li></ul>ENVELOPE MAGAZINEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976985471071516086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3393744822583587728.post-6588811750468152132008-09-27T09:14:00.000-07:002008-09-29T20:58:38.290-07:00What is EXCITEMENT ?The history of EXCITEMENT according to the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1604</span> "Something that excites; a means of exciting. Something that tends to excite (a feeling); a motive or incentive to action; an exhortation, encouragement."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1788</span> "Excited state or condition. A state of abnormal activity in any organ. Also, in the ‘Brunonian’ physiology, the effects resulting from the presence of the vital principle in the organism."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1823</span> "Stimulation, titillation (of the senses)."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1830</span> "The action of exciting; the fact of being excited."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1846</span> "The condition of being mentally excited, whether by pleasurable or painful emotion."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1878</span> "An occasion of mental excitement."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * *<br /></div><br />We are looking for creative solutions/responses/definitions/expressions to this question: <span style="font-style: italic;">What is excitement?</span> Please submit your original work to: <a href="mailto:EnvelopeMagazine@gmail.com" target="_blank">EnvelopeMagazine@gmail.com</a>.ENVELOPE MAGAZINEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976985471071516086noreply@blogger.com2