Eva Illouz is Directrice d’Etudes at EHESS, a member of the Hebrew University’s Center for Rationality, and holder of the Rose Isaac Chair in Sociology. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute and visiting professor at the Wissenschaftzentrum, in Berlin. She is a past President of the Bezalel Academy of Arts. She was a member of the WissenshaftKolleg in Berlin and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. Her books have won numerous international awards and have been translated into 25 languages. She received three Best Book Awards from the American Sociological Association, the Annaliese Maier International Award for Excellence in research, the EMET prize in Israel for lifetime achievement as well as the French Legion d’Honneur for her contribution to French culture. In addition to her scholarly work, she writes for Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and Ha’aretz on various subjects such as literature, politics and social affairs.
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Emotions 2021/22
The Concept For centuries emotions have been pitted against reason and located somewhere in between the heart and the gut, totally alien to the brain.
