Emotions as Commodities: Capitalism, Consumption and Authenticity

by Eva Illouz

Book Overview

Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life. This raises the question: how could we have become increasingly rationalized and more intensely emotional?

Emotions as Commodities offers a simple hypothesis: that consumer acts and emotional life have become closely and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138628239
• ISBN13: 9781138628236
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.