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Eva Illouz
Researcher at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Publications - 45
Citations - 3345
Eva Illouz is an academic researcher from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The author has contributed to research in topics: Romance & Consumption (economics). The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 43 publications receiving 3089 citations. Previous affiliations of Eva Illouz include École Normale Supérieure & Tel Aviv University.
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Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the rise of Homo Sentimentalis and the role that emotion plays in the development of a person's identity.
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Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship among the market, love, romance, courtship, and marriage and reveal that respondents with high cultural capital tend to reject stories of spontaneous and passionate romantic love as phony and often unhealthy constructions of mass media.
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Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of psychotherapy in the development of a new style of emotional style in the context of cultural critique and psychology and the rise of emotional competency in the culture.
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Emotions, Imagination and Consumption: A new research agenda
TL;DR: The authors argue that the category of "emotion" can be a heuristic for a sociology of consumption, and that the sociology has long been dealing with emotions, albeit unknowingly.