Love and Society: Special Social Forms and the Master Emotion

ISBN-13: 9780367870614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Swen Seebach

Opis

Love and Society discusses the meaning and importance of love for contemporary society. Love is not only an emotion that occurs in our intimate relationships; it is a special emotion that allows us to relate to each other in a lasting fashion, to create out of our individual pasts a shared past, which enables us to project a shared future.

Spis treści

Acknowledgement *

Introduction *

I. 1655 *

II. 1894 *

III. 2013 *

Part I – AN IDEA OF LOVE *

1. On Love - Between a Social Bond and an Emotion *

1.1 Framing love? *

1.2. The Whys and Why-nots of critical theory and feminist analysis in order to define and work with love *

1.3 Love in our words *

1.4. The Triangular Theory of Love *

1.5. Niklas Luhmann on Love and Intimacy *

1.6. Would Luhmann Consider Love as an Emotion? *

1.7. Beck/Beck-Gernsheim *

1.8. Pulling different strings together – Eva Illouz *

1.9. A Brief Review – A First Balance *

2. Love as a Second Order Form *

2.1. Introduction *

2.2. Love as an Emotion and as a Social Bond *

2.3. On Second Order Forms. What is a second order form? *

2.4. Could Love be a Form of the Second Order? *

2.5. From Love as an Emotion to Love as a Second Order Form *

2.6. The Conditions for Love as a Second Order Form. On the Changing Nature of Society and its Forms and Apriorities *

2.7. A Brief Review – a Second Balance *

Part II – A MYTH OF LOVE *

3. Why and how could love become the predominant form of the second order? *

3.1. Introduction *

What is Modernity? *

3.2. From the crisis before to the crisis after First Modernity – Why could love become a second order form? *

The Third Apriority – Social Space and Social Place in First Modern Society *

The First Apriority – Building Wholes Out of Fragments *

The Second Apriority – Limits of the Social *

3.3. The Changes of the Three Apriorities during the Next Modernity Crisis. *

The First Apriority – The Fragments become Wholes *

The Second Apriority – The Return of the Oppressed – Body, Emotions, Desire *

The Third Apriority – A New Place in the Self, a new Place in Love *

O autorze

Swen Seebach is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at UAB (Barcelona Autonomous University), Spain.