에바 일루즈  | Polity Press

25,960원  | 20130923  | 9780745671079

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience. Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love. The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire. This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors.

에바 일루즈  | Wiley

114,460원  | 20120605  | 9780745661520

감정사회학의 대가 에바 일루즈의 역작 ‘현대인의 사랑’에 관한 사회학적 고발장을 던진다! 지금껏 ‘감정’은 주로 심리학의 연구대상으로 여겨져왔던 게 사실이다. 그러나 에바 일루즈는 소비자본주의로 기울어진 현대사회가 결국 그 구성원들이 지닌 감정의 생산과 변형에 막대한 영향력을 행사한다고 진단한다. ‘현대’라는 사회의 풍경을 감정의 ‘상품화’ 혹은 ‘자본화’라는 코드로 읽어내는 것이다. ‘사랑은 왜 아픈가?’ 혹은 ‘사랑은 왜 사랑에 빠진 사람을 아프게 만드는가?’를 다루는 이 책은 그녀가 진행해온 연구를 또 다른 방식으로 집대성한 독특한 성과물이다. ‘남녀 간의 사랑’이야말로 인간의 감정이 오롯이 표현되는 영역이므로 그 이면에 숨은 ‘사회학적 통찰’을 감행해본 것이다. 세계적인 학자답게 에바 일루즈사랑을 주제로 다룬 이 책에서도 놀라운 박학다식함과 특유의 성실함을 유감없이 발휘하고 있다.