Explosive Modernity

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Explosive Modernity / Explosive Moderne
Named as one of the 10 Most Influential Women in Sociology From the Last 10 Years by Academic Influence
In her new book, sociologist Eva Illouz takes a look at our highly charged present from the perspective of the emotions that forge it. Envy and rage, jealousy and shame, disappointment and love are not just deeply embedded in the social configurations of Western modernity, they are also actively cultivated by its economics, politics, and cultural formations. They are psychologically significant, morally meaningful, and politically powerful. And they are highly ambivalent. Which is what makes...
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In her new book, sociologist Eva Illouz takes a look at our highly charged present from the perspective of the emotions that forge it. Envy and rage, jealousy and shame, disappointment and love are not just deeply embedded in the social configurations of Western modernity, they are also actively cultivated by its economics, politics, and cultural formations. They are psychologically significant, morally meaningful, and politically powerful. And they are highly ambivalent. Which is what makes the present we live in so explosive. The smouldering crises of late-modern society cannot be untangled from the texture of its emotions.

In ten masterfully composed chapters, each of which are dedicated to a particular emotion, Illouz teases out these connections, shedding light on developments such as the demise of American democracy, the Sisyphean struggle of life under capitalism, and conflicts around notions of identity. But Illouz’s sociological analyses, historical miniatures, and philosophical reflections always stick close to the forces at the heart of this book: captivating accounts of narratives from world literature, spanning from antiquity to the present day, from Sappho to Ernaux. Figures like Emma Bovary, Michael Kohlhaas, and William Stoner bring the central emotions of our explosive modernity to life, embodying its tragic contradictions. A sparkling intellectual mosaic.
2024, 450 pages
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Illouz has been awarded for her work as the preeminent sociologist of the emtions.
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Eva Illouz has been awarded for her contributions to our understanding of the present.
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Illouz has been awarded for her work as the preeminent sociologist of the emtions.
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Eva Illouz has been awarded for her contributions to our understanding of the present.

DISCOVER

Nachricht
Illouz has been awarded for her work as the preeminent sociologist of the emtions.
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Eva Illouz has been awarded for her contributions to our understanding of the present.

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Eva Illouz, born in Morocco in 1961, is Directrice d’Etudes at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, CESSP-EHESS in Paris. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Annaliese Meier International Award for Excellence in Research and the E.M.E.T Award for Social Sciences, the highest scientific distinction in Israel. In 2022, Academic Influence listed her among the Influential Women in Sociology From the Last 10 Years (#8).
Eva Illouz, born in Morocco in 1961, is Directrice d’Etudes at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, CESSP-EHESS in...

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Emotional Life of Populism
Year of Publication: 2023
Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2023

Throughout the world, democracy is under assault by various populist movements and ideologies. And throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have...

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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Arabic world rights (Page Seven), France (Premier Parallèle), Italy (Castelvecchi), Sweden (Daidalos), Turkey (Lejand), Israel (Van Leer Institute), Korea (Cheongmi)

What is Sexual Capital?
Year of Publication: 2021
Dana Kaplan, Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2021

It is not nature that determines our ideas about sexuality, but society. Whereas it was religion that regulated sex in the past, today it is the economy. No wonder, then, that »sexual«...

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English world rights (Polity), Chinese simplex rights (Ginkgo (Shanghai) Book Co. / Post Wave), France (Seuil), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (HanulPlus), Greece (Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou)

Spanish edition available through Herder, Italian edition available through Castelvecchi

 

The End of Love
Year of Publication: 2018
Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2018

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 to us, the feverish waiting for...

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English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Catalan (Tigre de Paper), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Insight Media), Chinese complex rights (Linking), Russia (Directmedia), Arabic world rights (Page Seven), France (Seuil), Italy (Codice), Netherlands (Ten Have), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (Dolbegae), Greece (Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou), Israel (Modan)

Is it possible to be a Jewish Intellectual?
Year of Publication: 2015
Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2015

What is happening in a country where security is of such importance that a female physician is willing to take part in a conspiracy to commit murder because she is convinced that in doing so she...

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Sweden (Daidalos)

Hard-Core Romance
Year of Publication: 2013
Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2013
E.L. James’s BDSM Fifty Shades trilogy was an enormous success worldwide, particularly with women. But why? Because of the allegedly pornographic content? Because it was...
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English world rights (Chicago UP), Spanish world rights (Katz), France (Seuil), Italy (Mimesis), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (PWN)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Korea (Dolbegae), Croatia (Planetopija)

Why Love Hurts
Year of Publication: 2011
Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2011
After the great success of Consuming the Romantic Utopia, Cold Intimacies and Saving the Modern Soul, Eva Illouz’ Why Love Hurts is yet another great...
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Spanish world rights (Katz), Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal UP), Russia (Directmedia), Arabic world rights (Page Seven), France (Seuil; French audio book: Audiolib), Italy (Il Mulino), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (Dolbegae), Japan (Fukumura Shuppan), Poland (Krytyka Polityczna), Turkey (Zen), Greece (Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou), Israel (Keter)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese complex rights (Linking), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Zahar), Romania (Art), Serbia (Psihopolis Institut)

Cold Intimacies
Year of Publication: 2006
Eva IllouzYear of Publication: 2006
This book dispels some conventionally received ideas: namely, that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behaviour conflicts with...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Brazilian Portuguese rights (Jorge Zahar), Croatia (Planetopija)