Cold Intimacies The Making of Emotional Capitalism

Name: Cold Intimacies The Making of Emotional Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780745639055

ISBN-10: 0745639054

ISBN-13: 9780745639055

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eva Illouz

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It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest. Eva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture - in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. She argues that economic relations have become deeply emotional, while close, intimate relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models…

Book details

List price: $20.75
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 1/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.30" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Rise of Homo Sentimentalis


Freud and the Clark lectures


A new emotional style


The communicative ethic as the spirit of the corporation


The roses and thorns of the modern family


Conclusion



Suffering, Emotional Fields, and Emotional Capital


Introduction


The self-realization narrative


Emotional fields, emotional habitus


The pragmatics of psychology


Conclusion



Romantic Webs


Romancing the Internet


Virtual meetings


Ontological self-presentation


Fantasy and disappointment


Conclusion: A new Machiavellian move


Notes


Index