The end of love : a sociology of negative relations /

"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 our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Y...

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Author / Creator: Illouz, Eva, 1961- (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Drabinski, Kate S., editor.
Illouz, Eva, 1961- Warum Liebe endet: Eine Soziologie negativer Beziehungen.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Unloving : introduction to a sociology of negative choice
  • Pre-modern courtship, social certainty and the rise of negative relationships
  • Confusing sex
  • Scopic capitalism and the rise of ontological uncertainty
  • A freedom with many limits
  • Divorce as a negative relationship
  • Conclusion: Negative relations and the butterfly politics of sex.