《Cold Intimacies》简介：

It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest.

Eva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. She argues that economic relations have become deeply emotional, while close, intimate relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. This dual process by which emotional and economic relationships come to define and shape each other is called emotional capitalism. Illouz finds evidence of this process of emotional capitalism in various social sites: self-help literature, women's magazines, talk shows, support groups, and the Internet dating sites. How did this happen? What are the social consequences of the current preoccupation with emotions? How did the public sphere become saturated with the exposure of private life? Why does suffering occupy a central place in contemporary identity? How has emotional capitalism transformed our romantic choices and experiences? Building on and revising the intellectual legacy of critical theory, this book addresses these questions and offers a new interpretation of the reasons why the public and the private, the economic and the emotional spheres have become inextricably intertwined.

《Cold Intimacies》摘录：

后现代自我是没有核心本质的自我，它只是一系列待扮演的角。心理学和互联网技术结盟而制造出来的这一自我，是“本体”意义上的，因为它假设有一个永久的核心自我，人们可以通过多种展示方式（如调查问卷、照片展示、电子邮件等）来把握它。互联网技术复仇式地再次挑起了旧有的笛卡尔式的身心二元论，只不过现在，思想和身份唯一真正的所在地是在心灵中。拥有一个网络自我就是拥有笛卡尔式的“我思”，人们从其个人意识之墙的内部来观察这个世界，并通过此种观察参与到这个世界中。

《Cold Intimacies》目录：

Acknowledgments
1 The Rise of Homo Sentimentalis
Freud and the Clark lectures
A new emotional style
The communicative ethic as the spirit of the corporation
The roses and thorns of the modern family
Conclusion
2 Suffering, Emotional Fields, and Emotional Capital
Introduction
The self-realization narrative
Emotional fields, emotional habitus
The pragmatics of psychology
Conclusion
3 Romantic Webs
Romancing the Internet
Virtual meetings
Ontological self-presentation
Fantasy and disappointment
Conclusion: A new Machiavellian move
Notes
Index
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