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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 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 that 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.… (meer)
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Je ne suis qu’un chroniqueur, je veux que mon travail parle de ce que cela signifie que d’être une personne vivant là, aujourd’hui. Marc Quinn
Comprendre qu’être subversif, c’est passer de l’individuel au collectif. Abd Al Malik, Césaire, (Brazzaville via Oujda)
Je pose des questions non sur le socialisme, mais sur l’amour, la jalousie, l’enfance, la vieillesse. […] C’est la seule façon d’insérer la catastrophe dans un cadre familier et d’essayer de raconter quelque chose. Svetlana Alexievitch, La Fin de l’homme rouge
(Chapitre 1)
Il faut constamment se battre pour voir plus loin que le bout de son nez. George Orwell
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À mes fils Netanel, Immanuel et Amitai
À ma mère Alice,
À mes frères et sœur Michael, Marc et Nathalie
Avec qui le préfixe « non- » ne s’applique pas.
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I Le non-amour Introduction à une sociologie du choix négatif
La culture occidentale a abondamment représenté l’irruption miraculeuse de l’amour dans la vie des hommes et des femmes, le moment mythique où l’on sait que quelqu’un nous est destiné, l’attente fébrile d’un coup de téléphone ou d’un e-mail, le frisson qui nous parcourt à la simple pensée de celui ou celle qu’on aime. Être amoureux, c’est devenir un disciple de Platon, c’est voir dans une personne la manifestation d’une Idée pleine et parfaite. [...]
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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 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 that 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.