Eva Illouz: Explosive Moderne
Reviewed by Marian Pradella, 2025-01-29
Translated from German version by DeepL
Eva Illouz: Explosive Moderne. Eine scharfsinnige Analyse unserer emotionsgeladenen Gegenwart. Suhrkamp Verlag (Berlin) 2024. 447 pages. ISBN 978-3-518-43206-8. D: 32,00 EUR, A: 32,90 EUR, CH: 42,90 sFr.
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Summary
The book “Explosive Modernity” by Eva Illouz offers a successful and comprehensive tour through the emotional worlds of modernity and their transformation. Drawing on a large number of classic and contemporary literary works, Illouz analyzes the paradoxes and ambivalences inherent in all the emotions dealt with in modernity - from hope to anger to love - and which sometimes have blatant social consequences. Although the work has a scientific-sociological orientation, Illouz's vivid language also makes it highly recommendable for an interested lay audience - especially for those who have an affinity for literature, which plays a central role in her analysis.
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Marian Pradella
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie - Vergleichende Kultursoziologie und politische Soziologie Europas, Universität Siegen
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