Against Love A Polemic

Name: Against Love A Polemic
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ISBN: 9780375719325

ISBN-10: 0375719326

ISBN-13: 9780375719325

Edition: 2004

Authors: Laura Kipnis

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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.…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.91" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



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Prologue



Love's Labors



Domestic Gulags



The Art of Love



...And the Pursuit of Happiness


Selected Bibliography