Love and Sexuality in Social Theory

Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life.

Emiliano Bevilacqua is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salento. His research interests lie in social theory and the relationship between subjectivity and economics. He is the author of several publications, including ’Emotional Foundations of the Market: Sympathy and self-interest’ (Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 7, 2022) and ’The Government of Sentiments in Adam Smith’s Sociology. A Sociological Reading’ (Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, n. 3, 2020).

Mariano Longo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salento. His research interests lie in emotions in social theory and the relationship between fiction and the social sciences. He is the author of several publications, including ’Emotions through Literature. Fictional Narratives, Society and the Emotional Self’ (Routledge, 2020) and ’Fiction and Social Realty. Literature and Narrative as Sociological Resources’ (Routledge, 2015). He is the author of Charles Horton Cooley, pp. 113-133, in M. Cerulo, A. Scribano (eds.), ’The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology. A Study in Social Theory’ (Routledge, 2021).

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests lie in social theory and the relationship between emotions and everyday life. He is the Editor of several recent publications, including ’The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies’ (Routledge, 2022, edited with Greg Smith), ’Intimations of Nostalgia. Multidisciplinary Explorations of an Enduring Emotion’ (2021), and ’Death in Contemporary Popular Culture’ (Routledge, 2019, edited with Adriana Teodorescu).