Why does love hurt

"Why does love hurt" is not just a passing question on a book cover, but a journey of years of research, reading, and diving into a time when everything changed at the hands of the contemporary human who turned everything into a machine, justifying that with the conditions of supposed modernity and its dominance over the heart. Human beings have become wounded creatures, begging for emotion, compassion, and nostalgia for a warm embrace and a moment of love, even if fleeting. But love, like everything in modern liberal systems, has a material counterpart, a private market, and victims in the millions. Eva Ilouz attempts to address love from sociological, philosophical, and literary angles, relying in her research on questioning the repercussions of modernity and capitalist systems on human emotions and daily life. She takes us on an exciting journey deep inside ourselves, trying to feel the wound a little and to attempt to mend it gently without awakening our hidden pains and endless questions. A reference and important book, translated into more than twenty languages, and to this day, still a subject of research and discussion in literary and academic circles worldwide. As described by Grinika magazine, she is the greatest thinker of the twenty-first century. Book information: Author: Eva Ilouz Year of publication: 2020 Publisher: Seven Pages Number of pages: 428 To request Eva Ilouz's works: Why does love hurt, cold intimacies, shaping emotional capitalism, the end of love, sociology of negative relationships, saving the modern soul