作者：EvaIllouz
出版社：OxfordUniversityPress
副标题：ASociologyofNegativeRelations
出版年：2019-11-6
页数：320
定价：£22.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780190914639
内容简介
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Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments when we avoid falling in love, where we fall out of love, when the one who kept us awake at night now leaves us indifferent, or when we hurry away from those who excited us a few months or even a few hours before.
In The End of Love, Eva Illouz documents the multifarious ways in which relationships end. She argues that if modern love was once marked by the freedom to enter sexual and emotional bonds according to one’s will and choice, contemporary love has now become characterized by practices of non-choice, the freedom to withdraw from relationships. Illouz dubs this process by which relationships fade, evaporate, dissolve, and break down “unloving.” While sociology has classically focused on the formation of social bonds, The End of Love makes a powerful case for studying why and how social bonds collapse and dissolve.
Particularly striking is the role that capitalism plays in practices of non-choice and “unloving.” The unmaking of social bonds, she argues, is connected to contemporary capitalism that is characterized by practices of non-commitment and non-choice, practices that enable the quick withdrawal from a transaction and the quick realignment of prices and the breaking of loyalties. Unloving and non-choice have in turn a profound impact on society and economics as they explain why people may be having fewer children, increasingly living alone, and having less sex.
The End of Love presents a profound and original analysis of the effects of capitalism and consumer culture on personal relationships and of what the dissolution of personal relationships means for capitalism.
作者简介
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Eva Illouz is Directrice d’Etudes at the EHESS in Paris and Rose Isaac Chair of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her previous books include Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, and Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
目录
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1. Introduction: Unloving and the Sociology of Negative Choice
2. Premodern Courtship, Social Certainty, and the Rise of Negative Relationships
3. Confusing Sex
4. The Rise of Ontological Uncertainty
5. A Freedom with Many Limits
6. Divorce as a Negative Relationship
Conclusion: Negative Relations and the Butterfly Politics of Sex
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
评论 ······
很好读，也真是非常全面，只不过访谈之外的有些材料使用我不是很确定可以这么用，最后结论其实又在做拓展，所以，期待22年的新书
好长一篇社会学论文。社会学家坚持将”选择”视为资本主义意识形态的支柱，视为经济学的认识论前提，视为自由主义的旗舰，视为心理科学产生的幻觉，或视为消费者欲望的主要文化结构.
资本主义和现代文化让情感和性变得不确定（消极关系）。Eva Illouz太神了……
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