In this book, hooks combines her personal life experiences with philosophical and psychological ideas to shape her thesis and discuss her main concepts.
She provides suggestions on how to reverse our cultural training and become more open to giving and receiving love. Within these chapters, Hooks also provides the reader with reflections on her own journey of love, as well as analysis of society's teachings of love.Īfter examining the ideals of love that society has put forth, Hooks boldly redefines love for the readers. The book is organized into thirteen chapters, in which each chapter discusses an aspect of love. 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.įor 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.All About Love: New Visions is a book by bell hooks published in 2000 that discusses aspects of romantic love in modern society. 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. 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. 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.
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives.
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