All About Love - Maxzor's books

eBook, 272 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-286217-4

(2 reviews)

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all.

Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to …

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all.

Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame.

For readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks's life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another.

6 editions

Capitainesse Blue reviewed À propos d'amour by bell hooks

Fondamental

5 stars

Je suis heureuse d'avoir pu lire cette traduction, et tellement affligée de ne pas avoir eu ce livre entre mes mains il y a de très nombreuses années... Genre au tout début de mon apprentissage féministe et relationnel amoureux. Je me serais épargné bien des errances et des souffrances inutiles au pays des livres de développement personnels foireux et des relations amoureuses patriarcales. Ce livre m'a aidé à y voir beaucoup plus clair, à comprendre enfin ce qui n'allait pas en matière d'amour dans ma vie, et aussi à comprendre mon attrait inaltérable pour l'amitié depuis l'enfance (ce qui étonnait tant de gens autour de moi). C'est un guide très précieux que je compte bien offrir à de nombreux proches.

Kurt reviewed All About Love by bell hooks

None

5 stars

I was wondering "what is it with love and our culture ?" (A certain type of) love seems to be everywhere in the media and in social norms, and nowhere in theory and philosophy, and general social sciences. Then I picked up this book, and it helped me articulate a lot of things. For most of the book I just thought "that's it exactly!"

Essential reading.

Subjects

Love
Feminist ethics