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Against Love: A Polemic

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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura KipnisPublish date:2004-09-14Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375719325ISBN-10:375719326UPC:9780375719325Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Sociology, Marriage & Long Term Relationships, EssaysBook Topic:Marriage & FamilySize:8.12 x 5.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCS4DZMJ2X
A polemic against love that is "engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose" (The New Yorker).

Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions.

But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love.

Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won't injure you (well not severely); it's just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375719325ISBN-10:375719326UPC:9780375719325Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Sociology, Marriage & Long Term Relationships, EssaysBook Topic:Marriage & FamilySize:8.12 x 5.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCS4DZMJ2X
LAURA KIPNIS is a professor of media studies at Northwestern University. She has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has published many essays and articles on sexual politics and contemporary culture both here and abroad.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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