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9780745610719 English 0745610714 This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life., This is a syudy of the nature of love in modern society. The nature of love is changing fundamentally in conjunction with transformations in sexual life and family forms. Love, the authors argue, has become an empty category, which lovers themselves must fill in relation to their own biographies and emotional lives. The consequences of this situation are manifold. On the one hand, there stands the possibility of creating forms of democracy in personal life which parallel those achieved in the public sphere; on the other side there is the potentiality for chaos. The authors also suggest that love becomes more important than ever before at the same time as it becomes more elusive. The struggle to harmonize family and career, love and marriage, new motherhood and fatherhood has today replaced class struggle. For better or for worse, individuals today who want to live together are becoming the legislators of their own ways of life, the judges of their own transgressions, the priests who absolve their owns sins and the therapists who loosen the bonds of their own past.
9780745610719 English 0745610714 This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life., This is a syudy of the nature of love in modern society. The nature of love is changing fundamentally in conjunction with transformations in sexual life and family forms. Love, the authors argue, has become an empty category, which lovers themselves must fill in relation to their own biographies and emotional lives. The consequences of this situation are manifold. On the one hand, there stands the possibility of creating forms of democracy in personal life which parallel those achieved in the public sphere; on the other side there is the potentiality for chaos. The authors also suggest that love becomes more important than ever before at the same time as it becomes more elusive. The struggle to harmonize family and career, love and marriage, new motherhood and fatherhood has today replaced class struggle. For better or for worse, individuals today who want to live together are becoming the legislators of their own ways of life, the judges of their own transgressions, the priests who absolve their owns sins and the therapists who loosen the bonds of their own past.