{"title":"Eva Illouz","description":"\u003cp\u003eEva Illouz offers a profound exploration of the intricate relationship between emotions and society, weaving together insights from \u003cem\u003escience, culture\u003c\/em\u003e, and politics. Her work delves into how modern love and emotional experiences are shaped by social structures, cultural norms, and historical forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analyses that challenge conventional understandings of intimacy, romance, and political sentiment. Illouz’s books provide a critical framework for anyone interested in the emotional dimensions of contemporary life and the intersections of personal feeling with broader social changes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-end-of-love-by-eva-illouz-9781509550258","title":"The End of Love","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWestern 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 characterised 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, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/i\u003e makes a powerful case for studying why and how social bonds collapse and dissolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eParticularly 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 characterised 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833626611948,"sku":"9781509550258","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12524833482725.jpg?v=1758469643"},{"product_id":"the-emotional-life-of-populism-by-eva-illouz-9781509558193","title":"The Emotional Life of Populism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have no qualms about aggravating social inequalities, enjoy the support of those whom their ideas and policies affect and hurt the most?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo make sense of this enigma, the sociologist Eva Illouz argues that we must understand the crucial role that emotions play in our political life. Taking the case of Israel as her prime example, she shows that populist politics rest on four key emotions: fear, disgust, resentment, and love for one's country. It is the combination of these four emotions and their relentless presence in the political arena that nourishes and underpins the rise and persistence of populism both in Israel and in many other countries around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis highly original perspective on the rise of populism will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the key political developments of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Emotional Life of Populism\u003c\/i\u003e provides insightful analysis into how emotions shape our political landscape, making it a compelling read for those looking to delve deeper into contemporary political dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455761170668,"sku":"9781509558193","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71d_4J3I_UL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774797218"},{"product_id":"hard-core-romance-by-eva-illouz-9780226153698","title":"Hard-Core Romance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom its beginnings in \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James's lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her to BDSM sex has ingrained itself in our collective consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut why have these particular novels—poorly written and formulaic as they are—become so popular, especially among women over thirty?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this concise, engaging book, Eva Illouz subjects the \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades\u003c\/i\u003e cultural phenomenon to the serious scrutiny it has been begging for. After placing the trilogy in the context of best-seller publishing, she delves into its remarkable appeal, seeking to understand the intense reading pleasure it provides and how that resonates with the structure of relationships between men and women today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFifty Shades\u003c\/i\u003e, Illouz argues, is a gothic romance adapted to modern times in which sexuality is both a source of division between men and women and a site to orchestrate their reconciliation. As for the novels' notorious depictions of bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism, Illouz shows that these are as much a cultural fantasy as a sexual one, serving as a guide to a happier romantic life. The \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy merges romantic fantasy with self-help guide—two of the most popular genres for female readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a provocative explanation for the success and popularity of the \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e novels, \u003ci\u003eHard-Core Romance\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful look at modern relationships and contemporary women's literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470767735020,"sku":"9780226153698","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226153698-hard-core-romance.jpg?v=1775226446"},{"product_id":"emotional-technologies-by-eva-illouz-9781509575206","title":"Emotional Technologies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTechnology is conventionally viewed as dehumanising. 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This machinic intimacy between humans and technology integrates economy, culture, and psychology into one single matrix, making emotions into the new economic pipelines of techno-capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe emotionalisation of technology has profound effects: the loss of experience, loneliness crowded with vicarious interactions and leisure, and the replacement of reality by the performance of authenticity. Through a variety of examples, Illouz explores the mechanisms through which the emotional self has become the main economic resource of capitalism, a world where our feelings pass through machines and are manufactured, measured, and sold by them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562837885164,"sku":"9781509575206","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509575206-emotional-technologies.jpg?v=1776987720"},{"product_id":"why-love-hurts-by-eva-illouz-9780745661520","title":"Why Love Hurts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite 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 \u003cem\u003eWhy Love Hurts\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 organisation of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy Love Hurts\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601352048876,"sku":"9780745661520","price":143.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745661520-why-love-hurts.jpg?v=1777998286"},{"product_id":"cold-intimacies-by-eva-illouz-9780745639055","title":"Cold Intimacies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behaviour conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. 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