All about Love: New Visions Paperback - 2001
by Bell Hooks
All About Love New Visions by bell hooks is a powerful and timely exploration of love and how it can heal a divided society. With incisive insights and a proactive ethic, hooks offers inspiration and guidance for individuals and a nation hungry for care, compassion, and unity.
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Readers were sharply divided. Many praised the book’s clear, usable definition of love as action, its uncompromising claim that love and abuse cannot coexist, and its healing, therapeutic resonance—especially for those reckoning with childhood wounds and abusive dynamics. Others criticized a sermon-like tone, heavy spiritual/Christian framing, heteronormative and gender-essentialist assumptions, and sweeping, under-sourced generalizations. Several objected to dated, moralizing pop-culture judgments and flashes of class privilege, and found the book repetitive and closer to self-help than rigorous theory. The result: widely quoted and often transformative, yet polarizing and, for some, dated.
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From the rear cover
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION"
"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.
As Bell Hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.
Details
- Title All about Love: New Visions
- Author Bell Hooks
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 765th
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, NY
- Publication date 2001-01-09
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780060959470 / 0060959479
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (19.81 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Category Psychology
- Library of Congress subjects Love, Feminist ethics
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99035253
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.7
