All About Love: New Visions

Posted on 05 August 2019 by bell hooks

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives 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 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 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.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.For 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. Free Read [ All About Love: New Visions ] By [ bell hooks ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The best and worst thing about this book was hooks commitment throughout the work to making powerful, decisive statements that wanted to leave little room open for argument When she was on, this authoritative voice felt like a revelation such as when she declares that abuse and love cannot coexist It s a beautiful, affirming, heartbreaking statement, that seems to have a large weight of truth behind it, at once the most and least obvious thing The definition of love that she borrows and The best and worst thing about this book ...Well, so, OK Here s the thing This book changed is changing my life It came to me at just the right second by which I mean, I took it from the house where I was house sitting at just the right second , and I have taken it straight to heart hooks is in the business of life changing, really, whether she s teaching us how to love in the face of a planet of lovelessness, or teaching us to find, confront, and exorcise the racism and sexism by which we invariably live What got to me in All Well, so, OK Here s the thing This book changed is changing my life It came to me at just the right second by which I mean, I took it from the house where I was house sitting at just the right second , and I have taken it straight to heart hooks is in the business of life changing, really, whether she s teaching us how to love in the face of a planet of lovelessness, or teaching us to fin...I could write almost every page of this book a five star review bell hooks, African American feminist author of the revelationary The Will to Change , creates another visionary work with All About Love She argues for the importance of love in our private and public lives in powerful and innovative ways At first the title of this book made me roll my eyes a little, in a oh yay, a book that s all about love, how cliche kinda way But from the very first page, hooks...i find it astonishing that so many people i otherwise respect admire got so into this book i would love to try an experiment where this book is re released under some nobody s name, rather than bell hooks, we can see how people respond to it when they aren t actually responding to the whole bell hooks association i have LOVED a lot of hooks s books th...While there were a couple of bits of this book I liked hence the two stars , on the whole, this is a thumbs down for me.Firstly, it was incredibly heterocentric While the book at times acknowledged gay people existed, that didn t change the tone throughout The only two gay people mentioned were a graffiti artist who did a work the author admired that was apparently commentary on the then current AIDS crisis, and a lesbian who on the author s advice maintained contact with her toxic, While there were a couple of bits of this book I liked hence the two stars , on the whole, this is a thumbs down for me.Firstly, it was incredibly heterocentric While the boo...My book club chose this book in honor of Valentine s Day It s the first and probably now only book I ve ever read by Bell Hooks, and I was excited to read it When I checked it out of the library along with a huge stack of other books, the librarian pulled it out and said, Oh, this book is SO good Which made me evenexcited to read it.If she had stopped after the first two chapters, I probably would have recommended it as a worthwhile essay to read I liked that she really took the My book club chose this book in honor of Valentine s Day It s the first and probably now only book I ve ever read by Bell Hooks, and I was excited to read it When I checked it out of the library along with a huge stack of other books, the librarian pulled it out and said, Oh, this book is SO good Which made me evenexcited to read it.If she had stopped after the first two chapters, I probably...bell hooks is one of the greatest theorists and cultural critics of our time Her writings on racism and sexism are sharp, incitful and practical, as in they include practical solutions for healing the violence that these systems of oppression create And she writes books that could be classified as self help This is one of them All About Love begins with a working definition of love, a willful act to facilitate the growth of oneself or another person, and continues to discuss what love is, bell hooks is one of the greatest theorists and cultural critics of our time Her writings on rac...I really wanted to like this book, because I like bell hooks, her ideas and what she stands for.But, my god I found myself having to scan page after page in a half read because I couldn t bare the self help dialogue that she was engaging in Further, I found myself absolutely cringing over the books she referenced, not to mention how many times she quoted The Road Less Traveled.Yes I felt like some kind of academic snob ...In writing this review, I felt the need to pose the question What makes a feminist book Does it need to deal specifically with feminism, gender inequality, women, etc Does it simply need to avoid problematic stereotyping and other issues that contribute to the cultural perpetuation of systemic sexism Does it need to be written by a self avowed feminist or inspiring woman This book does a lot of those things, but most impor...Yes Please do read this Make yourself better make the world better You can trust bell hooks.eta just couldn t not add this Those giving the one and two stars, those folks need love too Be kind.

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05 August 2019

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