"Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life. Presenting an understanding of love as the social basis of altruism, as an important factor in modern conceptions of subjectivity and that which shapes intimacy and contemporary social life, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social theory and the sociology of emotions"--
Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life.
Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life.
Drawing on both classical and contemporary social theory, it presents both theoretical and empirical studies of love and sexuality as social factors, from the earliest reconstructions of modern emotional life to the most recent analyses of liquid love. With attention to the consequences that passions and desires have both on morals and behaviour, it departs from the analysis of society in terms of the division of labour and utilitarian mechanisms to consider how a society based on performances values human energy and emotional behaviour in a contradictory way. This book therefore presents and discusses classic authors, from Georg Simmel and Pitirim Sorkin to Marianne Weber and Simone De Beauvoir, through the work of Erving Goffman and ending with contemporary authors such as Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck and Eva Illouz.
Presenting an understanding of love as the social basis of altruism, as an important factor in modern conceptions of subjectivity and that which shapes intimacy and contemporary social life, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social theory and the sociology of emotions.
'Introduction. Introduction: Sexuality and Social Theory: Studying
Sexuality, Love and Intimate Life. Part I. Forerunners and Modern Classics.
1. Authority, Love, and Sexuality in the Works of John Millar.
2. Georg
Simmel: the Flirtation, the Love, and the Dualism of Individuality.
3.
Discovering Altruism: Sorokins Love Analysis.
4. The Chicago Schools
Reflection on Love, Sexuality, and Deviance: A Reading of William Isaac
Thomass The Unadjusted Girl: With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior
Analysis.
5. Marianne Weber and the (wo)mens Condition: Love as a Device
for Social Change.
6. Love and Sexuality in the Frankfurt School.
7. Reichs
Legacy: Power and Sexuality in Social Life.
8. The Crossed Ambivalence:
Social Equality and Sexual Difference in Simone De Beauvoir.
9. Intimacy in
the Interaction Order: The Legacy of Erving Goffman in Studies of Gender,
Love and Sexuality. Part II. Classics of the Contemporary Age.
10. Michel
Foucault: Sex and Sexuality in the Genealogy of the Modern Western Subject.
11. The Code of Intimacy. Love and Sexuality in Niklas Luhmann.
12. The New
Diotima: Agnes Heller's Thoughts on Love.
13. Sexual Scripts: Sexuality and
Desire in the Work of John H. Gagnon and William Simon.
14. The Trials and
Tribulations of Late-modern Intimate Life: Revisiting the Ideas of Anthony
Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman on Contemporary Love, Sexuality, and
Eroticism.
15. Romantic Suffering and Morality: Love for Illouz.
Emiliano Bevilacqua is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salento. His research interests lie in social theory and the relationship between subjectivity and economics. He is the author of several publications, including Emotional Foundations of the Market: Sympathy and Self-Interest (Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 7, 2022) and The Government of Sentiments in Adam Smiths Sociology. A Sociological Reading (Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, n. 3, 2020).
Mariano Longo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salento. His research interests lie in emotions in social theory and the relationship between fiction and the social sciences. He is the author of several publications, including Emotions through Literature. Fictional Narratives, Society and the Emotional Self (Routledge, 2020) and Fiction and Social Realty: Literature and Narrative as Sociological Resources (Routledge, 2015). He is the author of Charles Horton Cooley, pp. 113-133, in M. Cerulo, A. Scribano (eds.), The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology: A Study in Social Theory (Routledge, 2021).
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests lie in social theory and the relationship between emotions and everyday life. He is the editor of several recent publications, including The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies (Routledge, 2022, edited with Greg Smith), Intimations of Nostalgia: Multidisciplinary Explorations of an Enduring Emotion (2021), and Death in Contemporary Popular Culture (Routledge, 2019, edited with Adriana Teodorescu).
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