Author: Illouz, Eva
Brand: Polity
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 320
Release Date: 14-09-2021
Part Number: 9781509550258
Details: 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 down 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 which 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.
EAN: 9781509550258
Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English
7-Day Guilt Reset Workbook
Stop Replaying the Past. Start Moving Forward.
Do you find yourself returning to the same mistake, conversation, or decision again and again?
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Understand the Pattern
Learn what keeps pulling you back.
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Identify practical next steps.
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Learn what forgiveness actually means.
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- You replay the same mistake over and over
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You Cannot Change The Past.
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