Love Online: Emotions on the Internet

by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

Overview

Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or meet each other different from an affair in the real world? Does online sex still involve cheating on your partner? Why do people tell complete strangers their most intimate secrets? What are the rules of engagement? Will online affairs change the monogamous nature of romantic relationships? These are just some of the questions Professor Aaron Ben Ze'ev, distinguished writer and scholar, addresses in the first full length study of love online. Accessible, shocking, entertaining, enlightening, this book will change the way you look at cyberspace and love forever. Aaron Ben Ze'ev is a Professor at the Univeristy of Haifa in the Philosophy Department and has been the Rector of the University since 2000. He has published articles for many journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Philosophical Psychology, and Theory & Psychology among others. He has also had numerous books published including The Subtlety of Emotions (MIT Press, 2000) and The Perceptual System: A Philosophical and Psychological Perspective (Peter Lang,1993), both of which have been translated into Hebrew.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521832960
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/19/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	302
Sales rank:	1,240,724
Product dimensions:	5.79(w) x 8.82(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Aaron Ben Ze'ev is Rector of Haifa University, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Emotions at the University of Haifa. He has published extensively on emotion, most recently The Subtlety of Emotions (2000).

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The seductive space; 2. The paradoxical nature of online relationships; 3. Emotions on the net; 4. Online imagination; 5. Privacy, emotional closeness and openness; 6. Is it worth it?; 7. Flirting on and offline; 8. Cyberlove; 9. Chatting is sometimes cheating; 10. The future of romantic relationships.

Editorial Reviews

'This clearly written and dryly witty book, though avowedly a work of scholarship, is also packed with anecdotes and smart quotes, and displays an evident empathy for its keyboard-clattering subjects.' The Independent

'Love Online manages to present a fine combination of engaging reading, comprehensive research and stimulating philosophical debate.' Jerusalem Post

'How better to enhance the higher pleasures of philosophy than with the gratifications of voyeurism? Just such an occasion for compound joys is afforded by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev's charming investigation into internet affairs and their implications for the future of love, sex and marriage.' Philosophy in Review

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