Eva illouz biography

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InIllouz joined the Center for the Study of Rationality. In she was named first woman president of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in which she stayed until InIllouz was ranked as the eighth most influential woman in sociology worldwide. She taught at Tel Aviv University until In she was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.

Inshe was a eva illouz biography fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Eva Illouz is fluent in Hebrew, French and English. Illouz's research is at the junction of the sociology of emotions, of culture and of capitalism. In her latest works she has increasingly focused on the impact of capitalism on sexuality and emotions.

One dominant theme in Illouz's research concerns the ways in which capitalism has transformed emotional patterns, in the realms of both consumption and production. Looking at a wide sample of movies and advertising images in women's magazines of the s, advertising and cinematic culture presented commodities as the vector for emotional experiences and particularly the experience of romance.

The second process was that of the commodification of romance, the process by which the 19th-century practice of calling on a woman, that is going to her home, was replaced by dating: going out and consuming the increasingly powerful industries of leisure. Romantic encounters moved from the home to the sphere of consumer leisure with the result that the search for romantic love was made into a vector for the consumption of leisure goods produced by expanding industries of leisure.

In her book Why Love Hurts she centers on the notion of choice. The book makes the somewhat counter-intuitive claim that one of the most fruitful ways to understand the transformation of love in modernity is through the category of choice. Illouz views choice as the defining cultural hallmark of modernity because in the economic and political arenas, choice embodies the two faculties that justify the exercise of freedom, namely rationality and autonomy.

She extends this insight to the emotional realm and studies the various mechanisms through which in modernity choice of a mate have changed and have transformed the emotions active in the will of partners who meet in a market situation. In this sense, choice is one of the most powerful cultural and institutional vectors helping us understand modern individualism.

Given that choice is intrinsic to modern individuality, how and why people choose — or not — to enter a relationship is crucial to understanding love as an emotion and a relationship.

Eva illouz biography

Illouz argues that psychology has been central to the constitution of modern identity and to modern emotional life: from the s to the s clinical psychologists became an extraordinarily dominant social group as they entered the army, the corporation, the school, the state, social services, the media, child rearing, sexuality, marriage, church pastoral care.

In all of these realms, psychology established itself as the ultimate authority in matters of human distress by offering techniques to transform and overcome that distress. Psychologists of all persuasions have provided the main narrative of self-development for the 20th century. The psychological persuasion has transformed what was classified as a moral problem into a disease and may thus be understood as part and eva illouz biography of the broader phenomenon of the medicalization of social life.

What is common to theme 1 and theme 2 is that both love and psychological health constitute utopias of happiness for the modern self, that both are mediated through consumption and that both constitute horizons to which the modern self aspires. In that sense, one overarching theme of her work can be called the utopia of happiness and its interaction with the utopia of consumption.

InIllouz joined the Center for the Study of Rationality. In she was named first woman president of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in which she stayed until She taught at Tel Aviv University until From until she was the first woman president of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Eva Illouz is fluent in Hebrew, French and English. Illouz's research is at the junction of the sociology of emotions, of culture and of capitalism.

In her latest works she has increasingly focused on the impact of capitalism on sexuality and emotions. One dominant theme in Illouz's research concerns the ways in which capitalism has transformed emotional patterns, in the realms of both consumption and production. Looking at a wide sample of movies and advertising images in women's magazines of the s, advertising and cinematic culture presented commodities as the vector for emotional experiences and particularly the experience of romance.