all about love: new visions - by bell hooks

“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, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. 

Review from Eloise: Love. bell hooks presents an exploration of love in all of its forms—romantic, familial, communal, and self. And she does so in a way that, in all honesty, is terrifying. Everything I thought that I knew, or more relevant, didn’t know, was turned upside down in the most illuminating way. Western culture has turned love into both a commodity and an ideal. She is able to deconstruct the most common of misconceptions and challenges us to radicalize our evaluation of how we approach love through challenging the cultural norms that distort our perceptions. But, she guides us every step of the way, weaving in philosophical reflections, personal experiences, and wisdom from spiritual traditions, offering a holistic view of love as a transformative force that can heal.

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