{"product_id":"the-normal-chaos-of-love-paperback","title":"The Normal Chaos of Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eUlrich Beck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eElisabeth Beck-Gernsheim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen and women are increasingly becoming the authors of their own styles of life. The nature of love is changing fundamentally in conjunction with transformations in sexual life and family forms. Love, as Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 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, there is the potentiality for chaos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Love, say the authors, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This superbly original book extends and deepens some of the themes introduced in Ulrich Beck's celebrated work \u003ci\u003eRisk Society.\u003c\/i\u003e Social life is becoming much more open than ever before; at the same time, the mixture of opportunity and risk thus created introduces new anxieties into the various spheres of social life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen and women are increasingly becoming the authors of their own styles of life. The nature of love is changing fundamentally in conjunction with transformations in sexual life and family forms. Love, as Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 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, there is the potentiality for chaos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Love, say the authors, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This superbly original book extends and deepens some of the themes introduced in Ulrich Beck's celebrated work \u003ci\u003eRisk Society.\u003c\/i\u003e Social life is becoming much more open than ever before; at the same time, the mixture of opportunity and risk thus created introduces new anxieties into the various spheres of social life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUlrich Beck\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Beck-Gernsheim\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the University of Erlangen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.98 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 10, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131909247111,"sku":"9780745613826","price":45.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/51512f45cb91107f2fa83dbda60c2058.webp?v=1732622294","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-normal-chaos-of-love-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}