Richard Sennett
The Fall of Public Man
How the boundary between public and private life collapsed — and what a city loses when its people stop performing civility.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Managed Heart
The commercialization of human feeling — emotional labor as a hidden cost of service work and daily life.
Eva Illouz
Cold Intimacies
How emotional capitalism turns feelings into commodities — and why modern intimacy often feels like a transaction.
Susan Neiman
Left Is Not Woke
Why the woke movement, despite its left-wing self-image, has been colonized by right-wing ideas — and what a genuine left needs: universalism, justice, and the possibility of progress.
Ann Cvetkovich
Depression: A Public Feeling
Depression treated not as a private defect, but as a public feeling — a problem of living shaped by memoir, race, everyday habit, and care.