Explosive Modernity
English world rights (Princeton), Spanish world rights (Katz), Catalan (Edicions 62), Chinese simplex (Shanghai Insight Media), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Quina Editora), Arabic world rights (Page Seven), France (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Ten Have), Korea (Cheongmi), Greece (Patakis)
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.
»[The book contains] numerous enlightening detailed observations on the genesis of today’s ideological battlefields around identity, racism, and the trivialisation of terrorism, all from the perspective of a theory of the emotions.« Marianna Lieder, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Original and eye-opening.« DIE ZEIT
»With this book, [Illouz] encourages engaged thought. In a time in which emotions are increasingly taking on the status of argument, the enlightening studies of this sociologist help to defuse the detonators of our Explosive Modernity.« Guido Kalberer, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Explosive Modernity delivers a profound analysis of our contemporary emotional world.« Viorica Engelhardt, stern
»Thinking is doing, Adorno once said, to which Illouz has fittingly added ›feeling‹. … We need to comprehend that feelings are not merely our own private affair.« Marlene Knobloch, Süddeutsche Zeitung
»A new book by Eva Illouz is always a remarkable experience. Like nobody else in the field of social diagnostics, she aims simultaneously at the heart and the head.« DER SPIEGEL
»Her analysis of our explosive modernity is an intelligent and insightful explanation for the rampant feeling that so shapes our era and our democracy.« ttt – titel thesen temperamente
»[The book contains] numerous enlightening detailed observations on the genesis of today’s ideological battlefields around identity, racism, and the trivialisation of terrorism, all from the perspective of a theory of the...
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Eva Illouz Wins Aby Warburg Prize 2024
Illouz has been awarded for her work as the preeminent sociologist of the emtions.Eva Illouz Awarded the Frank Schirrmacher Prize 2024
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Eva Illouz Wins Aby Warburg Prize 2024
Illouz has been awarded for her work as the preeminent sociologist of the emtions.Eva Illouz Awarded the Frank Schirrmacher Prize 2024
Eva Illouz has been awarded for her contributions to our understanding of the present.Persons
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The Emotional Life of Populism
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...
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Arabic world rights (Page Seven), France (Premier Parallèle), Italy (Castelvecchi), Sweden (Daidalos), Poland (Narutowicz Institute), Romania (Idea), Turkey (Lejand), Israel (Van Leer Institute), Korea (Cheongmi)
What is Sexual Capital?
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«...
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
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...
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Catalan (Tigre de Paper), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Insight Media), Russia (Directmedia), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Quina Editora), Arabic world rights (Page Seven), France (Seuil), Italy (Codice), Netherlands (Ten Have), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (Dolbegae), Greece (Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou), Israel (Modan)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese complex rights (Linking),
Is it possible to be a Jewish Intellectual?
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...
Sweden (Daidalos)
Hard-Core Romance
English world rights (Chicago UP), Spanish world rights (Katz), France (Seuil), Italy (Mimesis), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (PWN)
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Why Love Hurts
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)
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Cold Intimacies
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