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Why Love Hurts
A Sociological Explanation
Taschenbuch von Eva Illouz
Sprache: Englisch

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Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience.

Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love.

The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire.

This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors.
Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience.

Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love.

The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire.

This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors.
Über den Autor
Eva Illouz is Rose Isaac Chair of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality. Her previous books include Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism and Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Her book Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery won the American Sociological Association, Culture Section Best Book Award, in 2005.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

1 Introduction: The Misery of Love 1

2 The Great Transformation of Love or the Emergence of Marriage Markets 18

3 Commitment Phobia and the New Architecture of Romantic Choice (with Mattan Shachak) 59

4 The Demand for Recognition: Love and the Vulnerability of the Self 109

5 Love, Reason, Irony 156

6 From Romantic Fantasy to Disappointment 198

7 Epilogue 238

Notes 249

Index 282

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Polity Press
Inhalt: 1. Introduction: The Misery of Love2. The Great Transformation of Love or the Emergence of Marriage Markets3. Commitment-phobia and the New Architecture of Romantic Choice4. The Demand for Recognition: Love and the Vulnerability of the Self5. Love
Reaso
ISBN-13: 9780745671079
ISBN-10: 0745671071
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A745671070
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Illouz, Eva
Hersteller: John Wiley & Sons
Wiley John + Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 230 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Eva Illouz
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2013
Gewicht: 0,461 kg
Artikel-ID: 105978792
Über den Autor
Eva Illouz is Rose Isaac Chair of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality. Her previous books include Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism and Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Her book Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery won the American Sociological Association, Culture Section Best Book Award, in 2005.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

1 Introduction: The Misery of Love 1

2 The Great Transformation of Love or the Emergence of Marriage Markets 18

3 Commitment Phobia and the New Architecture of Romantic Choice (with Mattan Shachak) 59

4 The Demand for Recognition: Love and the Vulnerability of the Self 109

5 Love, Reason, Irony 156

6 From Romantic Fantasy to Disappointment 198

7 Epilogue 238

Notes 249

Index 282

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Polity Press
Inhalt: 1. Introduction: The Misery of Love2. The Great Transformation of Love or the Emergence of Marriage Markets3. Commitment-phobia and the New Architecture of Romantic Choice4. The Demand for Recognition: Love and the Vulnerability of the Self5. Love
Reaso
ISBN-13: 9780745671079
ISBN-10: 0745671071
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A745671070
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Illouz, Eva
Hersteller: John Wiley & Sons
Wiley John + Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 230 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Eva Illouz
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2013
Gewicht: 0,461 kg
Artikel-ID: 105978792
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