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Saving the Modern Soul

Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help

By: Eva Illouz

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Saving the Modern Soul

Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help

By: Eva Illouz

The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture—from The Sopranos to Oprah, from the abundance of self-help books to the private consulting room, and from the support group to the magazine advice column. Saving the Modern Soul examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. Eva Illouz plumbs today's particular cultural moment to understand how and why psychology has secured its place at the core of modern identity. She examines a wide 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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520941314

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9780520941311

Cold Intimacies

The Making of Emotional Capitalism

By: Eva Illouz

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Cold Intimacies

The Making of Emotional Capitalism

By: Eva Illouz

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 economic relations have become deeply emotional, while close, intimate relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. This dual process by which emotional and economic relationships come to define and shape each other is called emotional capitalism. Illouz finds evidence of this process of emotional capitalism in various social sites: self-help literature, women's magazines, talk shows, support groups, and the Internet dating sites. How did this happen? What are the social consequences of the current preoccupation with emotions? How did the public sphere become saturated with the exposure of private life? Why does suffering occupy a central place in contemporary identity? How has emotional capitalism transformed our romantic choices and experiences? Building on and revising the intellectual legacy of critical theory, this book addresses these questions and offers a new interpretation of the reasons why the public and the private, the economic and the emotional spheres have become inextricably intertwined.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745658075

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9780745658070

Manufacturing Happy Citizens

How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives

By: Edgar Cabanas,Eva Illouz

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Manufacturing Happy Citizens

How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives

By: Edgar Cabanas,Eva Illouz

The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive psychologists, happiness economists and self-development gurus at the forefront. With the support of influential institutions and multinational corporations, these self-proclaimed experts now tell us what governmental policies to apply, what educational interventions to make and what changes we must undertake in order to lead more successful, more meaningful and healthier lives. With a healthy scepticism, this book documents the powerful social impact of the science and industry of happiness, arguing that the neoliberal alliance between psychologists, economists and self-development gurus has given rise to a new and oppressive form of government and control in which happiness has been woven into the very fabric of power.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509537902

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9781509537907

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

An Essay on Popular Culture

By: Eva Illouz

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Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

An Essay on Popular Culture

By: Eva Illouz

Oprah Winfrey is an unprecedented and important cultural phenomenon. This book aims to understand the reasons for her spectacular success and visibility. Based on nearly one hundred show transcripts; a year and a half of watching the show regularly; and analysis of magazine articles, several biographies, O Magazine, Oprah Book Club novels, self-help manuals promoted on the show, and hundreds of messages on the Oprah Winfrey Web site, it takes the Oprah industry seriously in order to ask fundamental questions about how culture works today.

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326

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Columbia University Press

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0231118120

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9780231118125

Consuming the Romantic Utopia

Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

By: Eva Illouz

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Consuming the Romantic Utopia

Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

By: Eva Illouz

To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the twentieth century, Eva Illouz unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of "true" love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. Illouz studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of clichés and images she calls the "Romantic Utopia." This utopia lives in the collective imagination of the nation and is built on images that unite amorous and economic activities in the rituals of dating, lovemaking, and marriage. Since the early 1900s, advertisers have tied the purchase of beauty products, sports cars, diet drinks, and snack foods to success in love and happiness. Illouz reveals that, ultimately, every cliché of romance—from an intimate dinner to a dozen red roses—is constructed by advertising and media images that preach a democratic ethos of consumption: material goods and happiness are available to all. Engaging and witty, Illouz's study begins with readings of ads, songs, films, and other public representations of romance and concludes with individual interviews in order to analyze the ways in which mass messages are internalized. Combining extensive historical research, interviews, and postmodern social theory, Illouz brings an impressive scholarship to her fascinating portrait of love in America.

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390

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Univ of California Press

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0520917995

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9780520917996

How to Be Bored

By: Eva Hoffman

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How to Be Bored

By: Eva Hoffman

In the latest installment of the acclaimed School of Life series, learn how to make peace with your down time—and even benefit from it. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing, but in the modern world the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Uninterrupted activity can seem exciting, but it can also leave us emotionally disorientated and mentally depleted. How can we recover a sense of balance and a richness in our lives? In How to Be Bored, Eva Hoffman argues for the need to cultivate curiosity and self-knowledge and to relish moments of unplugged idleness and non-virtual contact with others. Drawing on psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and a wide range of literature, she emphasizes the need to understand our own preferences and purposes and to replenish our inner resources. This book aims to make readers more vigorously engaged in their lives and to restore a sense of depth and meaning to their experiences.

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190

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Picador

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1250078687

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9781250078681

The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching

By: Eva-Maria Graf

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The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching

By: Eva-Maria Graf

The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching is the first linguistic monograph on executive coaching, a recent, not fully professionalized, yet booming helping professional format in the organizational realm. The book is positioned at the interface between applied linguistic analysis and the activity of coaching, coupled with its structuring professional theory. It presents the Basic Activity Model of coaching, a model for the qualitative analysis and description of the discursive co-construction of coaching by coach and client within and across individual coaching sessions and whole processes. The analysis is based on 150 hours of authentic data from the coaching approach Emotionally Intelligent Coaching and presents coaching as hybrid and interdiscursive helping professional format. The gained insights into the discursive layout of coaching interactions advance our linguistic understanding of helping professions as such, contribute to the theoretical and methodological underpinning of coaching and help promote the coaching practice.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027262721

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9789027262721

Secrets of Great Skin

The Definitive Guide to Anti-Aging Skin Care

By: David J. Goldberg,Eva M. Herriott

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Secrets of Great Skin

The Definitive Guide to Anti-Aging Skin Care

By: David J. Goldberg,Eva M. Herriott

In this authoritative and practical book, a dermatologist explains how to care for one's skin at any age.

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Innova Publishing

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0974937320

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9780974937328

The Emotional Life of Populism

How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy

By: Eva Illouz

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The Emotional Life of Populism

How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy

By: Eva Illouz

Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have no qualms about aggravating social inequalities, enjoy the support of those whom their ideas and policies affect and hurt the most? To make sense of this enigma, the sociologist Eva Illouz argues that we must understand the crucial role that emotions play in our political life. Taking the case of Israel as her prime example, she shows that populist politics rest on four key emotions: fear, disgust, resentment, and love for one’s country. It is the combination of these four emotions and their relentless presence in the political arena that nourishes and underpins the rise and persistence of populism both in Israel and in many other countries around the world. This highly original perspective on the rise of populism will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the key political developments of our time.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509558209

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9781509558209

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

An Essay on Popular Culture

By: Eva Illouz

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Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

An Essay on Popular Culture

By: Eva Illouz

Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standards and impoverished political consciousness, Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery asks us to rethink our perceptions of culture in general and popular culture in particular. At a time when crises of morality, beliefs, value systems, and personal worth dominate both public and private spheres, Oprah's emergence as a cultural form -- the Oprah persona -- becomes clearer, as she successfully reiterates some of our most pressing moral questions. Drawing on nearly one hundred show transcripts; a year and a half of watching the show regularly; and analysis of magazine articles, several biographies, O Magazine, Oprah Book Club novels, self-help manuals promoted on the show, and hundreds of discussions on the Oprah Winfrey Web site, Illouz takes the Oprah industry seriously, revealing it to be a multilayered "textual structure" that initiates, stages, and performs narratives of suffering and self-improvement that resonate with a wide audience and challenge traditional models of cultural analysis. This book looks closely at Oprah's method and her message, and in the process reconsiders popular culture and the tools we use to understand it.

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0231118139

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9780231118132

Theorizing Emotions

Sociological Explorations and Applications

By: Debra Hopkins,Jochen Kleres,Helena Flam,Helmut Kuzmics

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Theorizing Emotions

Sociological Explorations and Applications

By: Debra Hopkins,Jochen Kleres,Helena Flam,Helmut Kuzmics

Theorizing Emotions reflects the recent turn to emotions in academia—not just in sociology but also in psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience. Drawing on the classic studies of Max Weber, Erving Goffman, Norbert Elias, and Theodor Adorno, several leading European scholars present their findings on the role of emotions in various facets of society, from the laboratory to the office to the media. Among the topics discussed are the tensions between feelings and feeling rules, the conscious and unconscious emotions of scientists, emotions and social disorder, the effect of the emotional turn as an element of advancing modernity, romantic love in U.S. and Israeli codes of conduct, and the role of mass media in generating massive public emotions. Emotionen sind das Thema der Stunde. Aktuelle soziologische Ansätze zielen auf ein neues Verständnis der Klassiker sowie auf das theoretisch fundierte Studium von Emotionen in Organisationen, der Wirtschaft, den Medien oder Sozialen Bewegungen. Die Beiträge korrigieren den Rationalismus der soziologischen Theoriebildung und belegen die Bedeutung von Gefühlen innerhalb der Gesellschaft.

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Campus Verlag

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3593407426

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9783593407425

Book's by Eva Illouz

Saving the Modern Soul

Saving the Modern Soul

Cold Intimacies

Cold Intimacies

Manufacturing Happy Citizens

Manufacturing Happy Citizens

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

Consuming the Romantic Utopia

Consuming the Romantic Utopia

How to Be Bored

How to Be Bored

The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching

The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching

Secrets of Great Skin

Secrets of Great Skin

The Emotional Life of Populism

The Emotional Life of Populism

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery

Theorizing Emotions

Theorizing Emotions

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