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Explosive Emotions : How Modern Society Shapes What We Feel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Illouz, Eva.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to it We are in an explosive cultural moment.Whatever explanation for this is offered--inequalities, disaffection of political institutions, traumatic memory, woke culture, the rise of populism, the dominance of technology--it is the inescapable.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- preface
- Introduction
- part i The American Dream: An Emotional Dystopia?
- 1 The Sublimity and Cruelty of Hope
- 2 The Bitter Lips of Disappointment
- 3 Envy
- part ii The Emotions of Nationalism and Democracy
- 4 Anger
- 5 Fear and the Politics of Vulnerability
- 6 Nostalgia and Homelessness
- part iii Implosive Intimacy
- 7 Shame and Pride
- 8 Jealousy
- 9 Love
- A Coda
- notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-28729-5
- 0-691-27496-7
- 9780691274966
- OCLC:
- 1564376541
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