''This book tells us how to return to love.'' ''We yearn to end the lovelessness that is so pervasive in our society,'' she writes. It is a warm affirmation that love is possible and anĪttack on the culture of narcissism and selfishness. Now comes the feminist cultural critic Bell Hooks with her new book of essays, ''All About Love,'' written in a didactic style that would merge moral philosophy with self-help. Self-help has its uses, however: it neatly undoes the facile ideas of left (we are powerless victims)Īnd right (we have total agency in our lives) alike, and it provides the calming reassurance that others out there are as messed up as you are. Relegated to self-help, a genre that many distrust for its propensity to propose simple answers where there are none. Nce upon a time, the philosophy of love was a fine subject for the man of ideas, like Erich Fromm or C. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.Bell Hooks affirms that love is possible, and condemns the culture of narcissism. 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. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.Īs bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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.

“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 is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' 'Love Song to the Nation,” All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering.

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