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Cold intimacies : the making of emotional capitalism


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Summary: It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest. Eva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. She argues that.

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Contents Chapter 1: The Rise of Homo Sentimentalis Chapter 2: Suffering, Emotional Fields and Emotional Capital Chapter 3: Romantic Webs


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d. 28. June 2008

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Rune Lykkeberg

d. 28. June 2008



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