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Eva Illouz

Дата рождения: April 30, 1961 – Fes, Fès-Meknès, Morocco

Eva Illouz is an Israeli sociologist and public intellectual whose work examines emotions, capitalism, consumer culture, and modern intimacy. She is known for books such as Consuming the Romantic Utopia, Cold Intimacies, and Why Love Hurts, which have shaped debates on love, psychotherapy, and the emotional logic of contemporary life.

Биография и Путь Автора

Eva Illouz was born in Fez, Morocco, in 1961 and moved to France with her family as a child, a transnational beginning that would later shape her sensitivity to culture, identity, and modernity. She studied sociology, communication, and literature in Paris, completed further graduate work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned a PhD in communications and cultural studies from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. Her academic career then moved through visiting and senior posts at Northwestern, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Princeton, before expanding into institutional leadership as president of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design from 2012 to 2015 and directrice d’études at EHESS in Paris from 2015 onward. ((https://assets.website-files.com/57f4025425cefced5b111644/5c5019220a85450978fe16c2_Eva%20Illouz%20CV.pdf))

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Цитаты

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In such networked modernity, the non-formation of bonds becomes a sociological phenomenon in itself
-Why love ends
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Falling in love entails a loss of sovereignty
-Hard-Core Romance
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"Unloving" is the privileged terrain to understand how the intersection between capitalism, sexuality, gender relations, and technology generates a new form of (non) sociality
-The End of Love
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Rebellion and transgression have shifted to the right
-The Emotional Life of Populism
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I believe almost any emotion is neither positive nor negative
-Eva Illouz rethinks emotions
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Emotions are constructed because we use language, words, signs to express what we feel and to understand others
-Emotional Illusions
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Israel suffers from an autoimmune disease
-If Zionism is hijacked by an authoritarian and anti-democratic political project, what will be left of it?

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Roger Friedland

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Kathryn Lively

"Eva Illouz has established a reputation as the sociologist of love, sex and power"

The Irish Times

"Eva Illouz provides her most ambitious contribution to the sociology of emotions"

William Davies

"Eva Illouz etches a whole new emotional atlas"

Laura Kipnis

"Eva Illouz could very well be the twenty-first century's next great public intellectual"

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