The End of Love by Eva Iroce Publisher: Yuelu Publishing House

Introduction · · · · · ·
Why don't we love anymore?

This seems to be an era where everyone advocates freedom and pursues autonomy. Both men and women can define their own love and choose their partners at will. However, more choices do not bring people higher emotional satisfaction. The prospects of love are becoming more uncertain, and people who experience breakups and divorces are still experiencing heartbreak...

This is not only a historical record of "heartbreak", but also a major academic work criticizing capitalism and consumer culture. Eva Iroth has devoted 20 years of research, combining relevant theoretical resources such as sociology, psychology, and philosophy, and extracting rich cases from a large number of literary works, social software, film and television, interviews, and consultations to show us how modern society affects people's emotional structure and relationships.

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★ "One of the 12 most influential thinkers in the world" (Germany's Time magazine)

The results of 20 years of research by Eva Iroth, professor of sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

★Sorting out the evolution of people's concept of love from the 18th century to the present, and analyzing the causes behind it

From the multidisciplinary perspectives of sociology, psychology, and philosophy, this book helps you understand the confusion in our current emotional relationships: why we "fall out of love" anymore.

★ Directly hit the symptoms of current emotional relationships: increasingly common breakups and divorces, and declining fertility rates...

With fewer commitments and more freedom, can such a relationship really be happy?

How do the situations of men and women differ in free love?

Does sexual freedom really bring substantial liberation to both sexes?

★Highly recommended by American philosopher Susan Neyman, Professor Jill Iyar of Columbia University, Professor Shen Yifei of Fudan University, Professor Liu Wei of Renmin University of China, Professor Jiang Yuhui of East China Normal University, and others

Eva Iroth's work combines sophisticated theory with a keen eye for the nature of contemporary culture. This unique blend has made her an academic star in the European world. The End of Love is the result of the author's twenty years of reflection on the emotional way of the 21st century, which is inevitably linked to consumer capitalism, and will show readers why Iroth is one of the most important thinkers of this generation.

——Susan Naiman (American philosopher and cultural critic)

"Eva Iroce is always able to use her keen eyes as a sociologist, psychologist and philosopher to focus on the aspects of interpersonal relationships that are not often noticed, conduct in-depth analysis of them, and establish connections with the broader context of the times. In The End of Love, she examines a group of phenomena related to "not loving", and uses a unique perspective to answer why the certainty of intimate relationships is becoming lower and lower today, while the fading, disintegration and collapse of intimate relationships are becoming easier and more frequent. While helping us understand "not loving", The End of Love also tells us how to "love."

——Liu Wei (Professor at Renmin University of China)

"This is another masterpiece by the famous French sociologist Iros. For decades, she has continued to advance in depth along this theme. Not only is her determination admirable, but her insights are even more convincing. In this work, as the author said, the negative dimension of "not loving" stands out, becoming a key conceptual entry point for her to examine and analyze the emotional dilemma of the current era. This is not only a deepening of her previous research, but also a further introduction of profound philosophical thinking to specific problem contexts. In the face of painful life experiences again and again, she constantly tries to sublimate and liberate herself. Love may never end, because we have not yet learned how to make it truly begin."

——Jiang Yuhui (Professor at East China Normal University)

"Passionate, insightful, and breathtakingly wide-ranging, this is the best sociological examination yet of the chaos of emotional life wrought by capitalist markets, consumer culture, and the paradoxes of freedom."

-- Jill Iyal (Professor of Sociology, Columbia University)

★ Highly recommended by internationally renowned media such as Der Spiegel, Daily Mirror, Time Magazine, and The Irish Times

“A revealing study that fundamentally questions modern notions of love.”

——Germany's "Times" magazine

“A historian of human heartbreak.”

——The Irish Times

“No one has analyzed the impact of the Internet and consumer capitalism on love more passionately or accurately than this sociologist.”

——Germany's Der Spiegel Online