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The End of Love - A Sociology of Negative Relations (Paperback)
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The End of Love - A Sociology of Negative Relations (Paperback)
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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 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. In The End of Love, 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 characterized 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, The End of Love makes a powerful case
for studying why and how social bonds collapse and dissolve.
Particularly 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
characterized 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. The End
of Love 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.
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