Why does love hurt?

Author's name: Eva Illouz

The book, which won the 2014 Sociology of Emotions Award, "No one can discuss the issue of love without referring to this book." Die Zeit, "Why Love Hurts" is not just a passing question on a book cover. It is a journey of years of research, reading, and immersion in an era in which everything has changed at the hands of modern man, who has turned everything into a machine, justifying this with the terms of alleged modernity and its control over the heart. Man has been transformed into a wounded being, begging for emotion, compassion, and longing for a warm embrace and a moment of love, even if fleeting. But love, like everything else in modern liberal systems, has a material price, a private market, and millions of victims. Eva Illouz attempts to approach love from sociological, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Her research relies on questioning the repercussions of modernity and capitalist systems on human emotions and daily life. She takes us on an exciting journey into our depths, attempting to touch the wound a little and delicately mend it without awakening our hidden pains and endless questions. This important and reference book has been translated into more than twenty languages ​​and remains, to this day, the subject of research and discussion in literary and academic circles around the world. Guernica magazine has also named her the greatest thinker of the twenty-first century.