Eva Illouz
Professor of Sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S.), Paris
I’m a sociologist and a Director of Studies at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, CSE-EHESS in Paris. My research focuses on the sociology of capitalism, the sociology of emotions, the sociology of gender and the sociology of culture. M work explores several significant and thought-provoking themes, such as the influence of capitalism on emotions, the commodification of romance and the meaning of freedom, choice, and individualism in the modern world. I’m the author of 16 books, and perhaps most recently The End of Love and Explosive Modernity. I have received numerous awards for my work, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Meier Research Award and the EMET Award for Social Sciences. My work is translated into 25 languages.
EXPs by Eva Illouz
Capitalism manipulates and instrumentalises emotions, but exactly how is a more complicated question.
Anybody living in modern societies has encountered love, or at least knows people who have encountered love.
One of the chief assumptions of liberalism, at least a certain strand of liberalism and democratic theory, is the hope that the public sphere would be governed by reason: specifically, deliberative reason.