All About Love New Visions
All About Love New Visions by bell hooks, published by Harper Collins on January 9, 2001, is a thought-provoking exploration of the concept of love. In this edition, spanning 272 pages, hooks challenges conventional definitions of love, urging readers to view it not merely as a noun but as an active verb. Through her incisive analysis, she critiques the romanticized notions of love prevalent in society and proposes a new ethical framework for understanding love in a world often characterized by emotional disconnection.
In thirteen concise chapters, hooks delves into her personal journey in search of emotional connection while addressing society’s shortcomings in teaching the art of love. She dismantles the cultural belief that equates ideal love with sexual desire, instead advocating for a love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing. This work engages with themes of family and relationships, social science, and ethnic studies, offering readers a fresh perspective on love’s transformative potential.
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“The word “love” is most often defined as a noun, yet…we would all love to 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 provacative and intensely personel, 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 explode th 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 the 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.
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