All About Love: New Visions | 
|  | | | Title: | All About Love: New Visions | | Author: | bell hooks | | Publisher: | Harper Paperbacks | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 January, 2001 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0060959479 / 9780060959470 | | List Price: | $13.00 | | You Save: | $2.60 | | Amazon Price: | $10.40 | |
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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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Readers of bell hooks's fiery and eloquent attacks on racism and sexism might be surprised to see her take on the elusive subject of love, but in her own unique way, hooks beautifully weaves her childhood search for that emotion with society's misuse (and dire need) of it. All About Love takes apart the sentimental and often fleeting aspects of romance, stuck in the muddled urges of sex, and details the problems that arise from the confusion between the two. What hooks does best is reveal that the true force of love lies in its spiritual, redemptive power, which can impact positively on humankind: "When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise," she writes. "They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny." --Eugene Holley Jr.
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• Very Liberating! 23 July, 2002
I LOVE this book...read through it very quickly and look forward to reading it again. It did more for me than any "self-help" book I've picked up because she explores the issues surrounding love and why we are unable to love ourself. And there is no pressure to "practice" certain healing methods. The book is thought provoking and inspirational. I've struggled with the issue of lovelessness all my life and was on the verge of destroying a very wonderful relationship because of my inability to love myself first. I am better able now to understand where those feelings are coming from and how to deal with them and let them go. This book has helped to liberate me. And now I can learn to love myself and my partner on a much deeper level. Upon finishing the book, I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed and renewed with a new way of looking at love and how we love. From time to time, we do find ourselves discouraged and question whether we will find love in our lives without realizing that love exists in all of us and around us. Bell Hooks is a great writer; I admire her ability to express her thoughts on the issue of love and to be able to share it with the rest of world. She speaks to you in this book. Thank you, Bell Hooks!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A929H8YOTQV5X
• A Thoughtful, Intriguing, And Truly Enjoyable Book 01 December, 2002
bell hooks is one of the most gifted intellectuals of our time and this book is one of her best books. Before reading this book, I was only familiar with bell hooks in the context of her role as a social critic and scholar in terms of her writings on issues such as race, gender, and class; but what this book does is allow people to think critically about a subject so thought provoking but commonly explored and discussed within the commercial confines of popular culture. This book allows the reader to transcend thinking of love in terms of romantic love and love for our families, but also envision love as an emotion of compassion and a foundation for ethics and social change in terms of love for self, humanity, and the environment.
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• Brave 19 January, 2003
Thankfully, bell hooks is always brave enough to tell it like it is. Love is a verb not a feeling. There is an obvious connection between love as experienced within families and abusive romantic relationships. Read and begin to think critically about these core survival issues.Her observations are wise. Her grasp of history is absolute. Her ideas stimulate intelligent and loving thought, conversation, and action. Read this book.
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• A Treatise On Love 13 July, 2005
bell hooks' "all about love" is an excellent treatise on the importance of love in a culture that glorifies greed and self-hate. hooks offers much-needed criticism of society's abandonment of love and shows where the lack of love has left communities impoverished and addicted to drugs, alcohol, and/or shopping. Not only does hooks offer an alternative to the self-hate learned from family, media, and patriarchal society, but she gives simple, easy to follow steps that will lead individuals to self-love and communities to shared love and pride. Even if you don't agree with everything hooks says, it is a great book for anyone looking for a positive alternative to the widespread cynicism and lovelessness America has come to embrace.
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• It Goes Both Ways, Hooks 07 October, 2006
I think people who know nothing about love should avoid writing books about it. Hooks knows a bit more about hate. This is obvious from her own words.
Quote:
Bell Hooks (black professor of English at City College of New York)
"I am writing this essay sitting beside an anonymous white male that I long to murder." [From her book A Killing Rage, quoted by David Horowitz in Hating Whitey, Spence Publishing, 1999, p. 31.]
Hooks needs to understand that hate is wrong no matter where or who it issues forth from...black or white or anyone. Hate isn't right. I think anyone who hates someone, especially an anonymous, innocent person, should seriously consider adequate professional counseling for an extended period of time.
I think there are disorders which include the definition of hating strangers as one of their markers. We should never encourage or condone this kind of sick behavior. Thank you for your time.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2A46BUQRGSAB0
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