GripesISBN: 978-0-7456-4362-5
Paperback
224 pages
December 2009, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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Contemporary Sociology
"Living in an increasingly detraditionalised world opens up
glorious new opportunities for individual autonomy and
self-realisation. It also creates unprecedented pressures on
long-term relationships. Kaufmann
brilliantly captures this paradox of life in late modernity,
analysing the seemingly limitless sources of mutual irritation in
everyday life, as well as spouses' inventive revenge and
peacemaking tactics."
Véronique Mottier, Jesus College, Cambridge &
University of Lausanne
"Jean-Claude Kaufman's Gripes is one of those rare books
that brings into focus a seemingly unimportant fact of life.
Irritation and the slow abrasive effect of the gripes it causes are
sands that grind down the gears of relationships. Behavioral
scientists and self-help advisers make so much of the powerful
passions. Kaufman brilliantly illuminates the simpler forces of
social disruption."
Charles C. Lemert, author of Muhammad Ali: Trickster in the
Culture of Irony