Eva Illuz ( Heb. אווה אילוז ), April 30, 1961 , Fes - Israeli sociologist.
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Biography
Born in Morocco . Ten years old came to Paris . She graduated from the University of Western Paris - Nanter-la-Défense , Hebrew University in Jerusalem . Thesis in Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania ( 1991 ). She was a visiting professor at Northwestern University , Princeton University , Graduate School of Social Sciences , Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin .
In 2004, she gave a course of lectures in honor of Theodore Adorno at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt . Currently a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Research Interests
The main theme of Illuz is the history of emotional life, the sociology of feelings and their changes in the course of processes of modernization and globalization, technological changes, communication transformations.
Works
- Consuming a romantic utopia: love and cultural contradictions of capitalism / Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997
- The culture of capitalism. Israel University Broadcast, 2002 (Hebrew)
- Oprah Winfrey and the Splendor of Poverty: An Essay on Popular Culture: Oprah Winfrey and the Glamor of Misery. Columbia UP, 2003 (American Sociological Association Award for Best Book)
- Cold Intimacy: Emotional Capitalism in Action / Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism. London: Polity Press, 2007
- Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and a Culture of Self-Help / Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help. University of California Press, 2008
- Why does love hurt? Sociological explanation / Warum Liebe weh tut. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011 (English lane: Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation, 2012 )
- 2015. Israel - Soziologische Essays, German, suhrkamp.
Recognition
Books and articles Illus translated into many languages. In 2009, the leading German newspaper Die Zeit named her among the 12 modern thinkers who can influence the thought of tomorrow ( [1] ).
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 128446560 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Links
- On the website of the Hebrew University (eng.)
- Personal page on the university website (eng.)
- Curriculum Vitae (English)