144 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
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Routledge
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Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture. It has become central to the meaning of everyday life, propagated through the media and the market. Being in love has become idealised. With the demise of institutional religion in the West, romantic love has become the dominant form of inner-worldly salvation. In Foucault’s terms, it has become a key component in the ‘arts of existence’ and... Read more
Series editor’s preface 1. Love Makes the World Go Round 2. Romantic Love 3. All Kinds of Loving 4. Ingredients of Love 5. An Emotional Game 6. Being Lovely 7. Love and Sex 8. Making Love 9. Separation, Loss and Grief 10. Conclusion. Notes. Glossary. Suggested Further Reading
Biography
Tom Inglis is Associate Professor of Sociology in University College Dublin. He has written extensively on religion, sexuality, globalization, the media and love, particularly in his books Moral Monopoly (second edition, 1998), Lessons in Irish Sexuality (1998), Truth, Power and Lies (2003), Global Ireland (2008) and Making Love (2012).
