1st Edition
Love and Sexuality in Social Theory
Introduction. Introduction: sexuality and social theory - studying sexuality, love and intimate life
Emiliano Bevilacqua, Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Mariano Longo
Part I. Forerunners and modern classics
1. Authority, love, and sexuality in the works of John Millar
Nicholas B. Miller
2. Georg Simmel: the flirtation, the love, and the dualism of individuality
Massimo Cerulo
3. Discovering altruism: Sorokin’s love analysis
Angela Maria Zocchi
4. The Chicago School’s reflection on love, sexuality, and deviance. A reading of William Isaac Thomas’s The Unadjusted Girl: With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior Analysis
Michela Trinchese and Marta Vignola
5. Marianne Weber and the (wo)men’s condition: Love as a device for social change
Barbara Grüning
6. Love and sexuality in the Frankfurt School
Assumpta Sabuco
7. Reich’s legacy: power and sexuality in social life
Emiliano Bevilacqua
8. The Ambivalent Turn. Simone De Beauvoir's Interwining of Social Equality and Sexual Difference
Irene Strazzeri
9. Intimacy in the interaction order: the legacy of Erving Goffman in studies of gender, love and sexuality
Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Greg Smith
Part II. Classics of the contemporary age
10. Michel Foucault: sex and sexuality in the genealogy of the modern western subject
Valentina Cremonesini
11. The code of intimacy: love and sexuality in Niklas Luhmann
Mariano Longo
12. The new Diotima: Agnes Heller's thoughts on love
Davide Borrelli
13. Sexual scripts. Sexuality and desire in the work of John H. Gagnon and William Simon
Cirus Rinaldi, Marco Bacio, and Riccardo Caldarera
14. The trials and tribulations of late-modern intimate life - revisiting the ideas of Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman on contemporary love, sexuality and eroticism
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
15. Romantic suffering and morality: Love for Illouz
Julia Carter and Daniel Smith
Biography
Emiliano Bevilacqua is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salento. His research interests lie in social theory and the relationship between subjectivity and economics. He is the author of several publications, including ‘Emotional Foundations of the Market: Sympathy and Self-Interest’ (Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 7, 2022) and ‘The Government of Sentiments in Adam Smith’s Sociology. A Sociological Reading’ (Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, n. 3, 2020).
Mariano Longo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salento. His research interests lie in emotions in social theory and the relationship between fiction and the social sciences. He is the author of several publications, including Emotions through Literature. Fictional Narratives, Society and the Emotional Self (Routledge, 2020) and Fiction and Social Realty: Literature and Narrative as Sociological Resources (Routledge, 2015). He is the author of Charles Horton Cooley, pp. 113-133, in M. Cerulo, A. Scribano (eds.), The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology: A Study in Social Theory (Routledge, 2021).
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests lie in social theory and the relationship between emotions and everyday life. He is the editor of several recent publications, including The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies (Routledge, 2022, edited with Greg Smith), Intimations of Nostalgia: Multidisciplinary Explorations of an Enduring Emotion (2021), and Death in Contemporary Popular Culture (Routledge, 2019, edited with Adriana Teodorescu).
