Eva Illouz

Broschiertes Buch

Saving the Modern Soul

Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help

Beschreibung

Examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. This book examines a range of sources to show how self-help culture has transformed contemporary emotional life and how therapy complicates individuals' lives even as it claims to dissect their emotional experiences and heal trauma.

Autor

Eva Illouz is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality. She is also the Academic Director of the Program in Cultural Studies. She is the author of Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (UC Press; honorable mention, Outstanding Contribution Award, American Sociological Association, 2000); The Culture of Capitalism (in hebrew); Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture (Best Book Award, American Sociological Association, 2005); and Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780520253735
• ISBN-10: 0520253736
• Artikelnr.: 23163481