Eva Illouz – Explosive Modernity
Politics of fear, spirals of disappointment, people enraged. In her new book Explosive Modernity, sociologist Eva Illouz (“Why Love Hurts”, “Cold Intimacies”) observes our highly charged present day from the perspective of the emotions that forge it. Fear, disappointment and rage but also shame and love are deeply embedded in the social configurations of Western modernity and are actively cultivated by its economics, politics, and cultural formations. They are psychologically significant, morally meaningful, and politically powerful. And they are highly ambivalent, which makes the present we live in so explosive. Illouz explores these phenomena in a composition of sociological analyses, historical miniatures and readings of iconic works of world literature. “A new book by Eva Illouz is always a remarkable experience. Like no one else in the field of societal diagnostics, she aims at once at head and heart” (Der Spiegel). Host: Susanne Weingarten
Contributors
Susanne Weingarten
Born in 1964, Susanne Weingarten obtained a doctorate in American… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
Eva Illouz
Eva Illouz, born in 1961, is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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09. October 2024
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