Eva Illouz

Dzieła

• 2011Dlaczego miłość boli. Wyjaśnienie socjologiczne

  Romantyczne cierpienie wyjaśnione socjologicznie: otwarte rynki małżeńskie, obfitość wyboru i poczucie własnej wartości związane z miłością czynią złamane serce doświadczeniem społecznym, a nie tylko prywatną porażką.

Stanowisko

Illouz studies how capitalism has shaped the emotions – and how emotions have shaped capitalism. Consuming the Romantic Utopia (1997) showed that 20th-century romance became bound up with consumption: the restaurant date, the holiday, the gift. In her Adorno Lectures, published in English as Cold Intimacies, she introduced the term “emotional capitalism” for a culture in which economic relations are saturated with emotional language – teamwork, communication, empathy – while intimate relations are organised by economic models of exchange and negotiation. A key role is played by therapeutic discourse, the subject of Saving the Modern Soul (2008): psychology has given modern people a language of self-realisation and emotional competence, but also an endless narrative of suffering and self-improvement. In Why Love Hurts (German 2011, English 2012) she argued against purely psychological explanations that the pain of modern love is socially produced: freedom of choice, online dating and markets of sexual attractiveness make commitment difficult and self-worth insecure. The End of Love (2019) traced “negative relations” – the choice not to choose – and later books analyse the emotions of populism. Her work combines Weber, Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School in a cultural sociology of feeling.

Życie i kontekst

Eva Illouz was born in 1961 in Fez, Morocco, and moved with her family to France as a child. She studied sociology, communication and literature in Paris, took a master’s degree in communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her doctorate in communications and cultural studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. After teaching at Tel Aviv University she became professor of sociology at the Hebrew University, where she is now emerita. From 2012 to 2015 she was the first woman president of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and since 2015 she has been directrice d’études at the EHESS in Paris. She gave the Adorno Lectures in Frankfurt in 2004 and has become a prominent voice in public debates, not least on Israeli democracy.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Consuming the Romantic Utopia (1997)
• Cold Intimacies (2007)
• Saving the Modern Soul (2008)
• Why Love Hurts (2011, English 2012)
• The End of Love (2019)
• The Emotional Life of Populism (2023)

Pojawia się w

• Debata „Demokracja, prawda i polaryzacja”
• Debata „Przyspieszenie, rezonans i dobre życie”