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Sociology of Love : The Agapic Dimension of Societal Life.
Title:
Sociology of Love : The Agapic Dimension of Societal Life.
Author:
Iorio, Gennaro.
ISBN:
9781622731633
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (102 pages)
Series:
Vernon Series in Sociology
Contents:
Chapter 1 What is agape -- Chapter 2 What Agape is not -- Chapter 3 Love in the sociological tradition -- Chapter 4 The agape: the micro and the macro. -- Chapter 5 Case Studies -- Chapter 6 Epilogue -- Index.
Abstract:
This short book deals with a sociological concept: love-agape. It is an attempt to demonstrate that love-agape resists, indeed insists, as a fact that cannot be reduced or concealed. Its simple goal is to introduce agape into the vocabulary of sociological analysis by demonstrating its potential to demarcate and to interpret social phenomena. Love-agape is presented as a critical concept. On the one hand, love-agape denounces the risks linked to the needs of closed groups, often absolutist and fundamentalist. On the other hand, it represents a concrete reality, lying at the root of a particular type of sociality. A sociality that, rather unconventionally, recognizes differences and distances, but also characterizes their condition of being together, as community founded on the recognition and respect of subjectivity.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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