{"product_id":"the-end-of-love-a-sociology-of-negative-relations-paperback-softback-9781509550258","title":"The End of Love; A Sociology of Negative Relations (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509550258","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Sociology of Negative Relations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEva Illouz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509550258, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“A brilliant analysis of the connection between capitalism and relationships.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHagai Levi, director of \u003ci\u003eScenes from a\u003c\/i\u003e Marriage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Eva Illouz is the most original contemporary theorist of romance and intimacy, and The End of Love is her most radical book.  If you’re interested in the future of relationships, you must read this book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Klinenberg, NYU, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eModern Romance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Why is the realm of sexual freedom also a conveyor belt for the production of uncertainty, anxiety, malaise, and regret?  Eloquently and revealingly, Illouz graphs the emotional price systems of what she calls ‘scopic capitalism’ like a Balzac for the Tinder era.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Kipnis, author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Eva Illouz presents a bleak but fascinating analysis of what the modern world has done to love… The great French novelist Honoré de Balzac said he wanted to be the historian of the human heart.  The Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz might be called the historian of human heartbreak.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Eva Illouz’s work combines theoretical sophistication with a sharp eye for what’s essential in contemporary culture. This singular blend has made her an intellectual star of the European world. \u003ci\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, the fruit of twenty years of reflection about the ways in which 21st century emotions are inevitably bound up with consumer capitalism, will show American readers too why Illouz is one of the most important thinkers of her generation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative new installment in Eva Illouz’s two-decades-long interrogation of the relatiuons between the modern idea of love and the cultures of capitalism. As contemporary capitalism thrives on dislocation, disruption, casualness, uncertainty, and precarity, Illouz draws attention to a corresponding morphing of sexual relations and inner life. Our contemporary culture, she shows, is suffused with practices of ‘unloving’, of quickly forming and dissolving intimate ties in a quest for self-empowerment understood as radical autonomy and the exercise of free choice. Written with passion, insight, and breathtaking scope, it is the best sociological examination of the disorganization of emotional life wrought by the capitalist market, consumer culture, and the paradoxes of freedom.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGil Eyal, Columbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\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 \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 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, \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 \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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cp\u003e1. Unloving: Introduction to a Sociology of Negative Choice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove as Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Malaise with a Critique of Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChoice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNegative Choice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Pre-Modern Courtship, Social Certainty, and the Rise of Negative Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCourtship as a Sociological Structure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCertainty as a Sociological Structure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual Freedom as Consumer Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Social and Sexual Grammar\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Confusing Sex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCasual Sexuality and Its Elusive Effects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCasualness and Uncertainty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUncertainty and Negative Sociality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Scopic Capitalism and the Rise of Ontological Uncertainty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Value of the Body\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProducing Symbolic and Economic Value\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvaluation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual Devaluation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShifting the Reference Point of Evaluation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Confused Status of the Subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. A Freedom with Many Limits\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsent to What?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuddled Wills\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolatility as an Emotional Condition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExiting without a Voice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrust and Uncertainty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Divorce as a Negative Relationship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivorce and Women’s Position in the Emotional Field\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Narrative Structure of Departing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexuality: The Great Separation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumer Objects: From Transitional to Exiting Objects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutonomy and Attachment: The Difficult Couple\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmotional Ontologies and Non-Binding Emotional Contracts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmotional Competence and Women’s Position in the Relational Process\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Negative Relations and the Butterfly Politics of Sex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453563760920,"sku":"9781509550258","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509550258.jpg?v=1785286642","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-end-of-love-a-sociology-of-negative-relations-paperback-softback-9781509550258","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}