Revisiting Virginia Woolf's most experimental texts, Elsa Hoegberg explores how Woolf's writing prompts us to re-examine the meaning of intimacy. In Hoegberg's readings of Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves, intimacy is revealed to be not just affective …
Everyday Friendship conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. Drawing on writing on friendship, love, and intimacy by such thinkers as Simmel and Kracauer, Elias, Goffman, Luhmann…
Everyday Friendships conceptualizes the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the meaning of love and friendship is increasingly unclear. Drawing on such thinkers as Simmel and Kracauer, Elias, Goffman, Luhmann, and Honneth, the book charts modern intimacy and the fre…
"This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, 'make the familiar strange'. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to 'make the familiar strange', and how this approach bene…
"This volume looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomenon, the volume: - Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship and sexuality and attempts …
How much can we know about what other people are feeling and how much can we sympathize or empathize with them? The term "intimacy"--Which has always referred both to the inmost and personal, and to relationships of exceptional closeness--captures a tension between a confidence …