![]() ![]() ![]() On illusion, but love comes only through painful truth-telling work and money have replaced the values of love and community, and this must be reversed. Community - extended family, creative or political collaboration, friendship - is as important as the couple or the nuclear family love is an art that involves work, not just the thrill of attraction desire may depend ''This book tells us how to return to love.'' ''We yearn to end the lovelessness that is so pervasive in our society,'' she writes. It is a warm affirmation that love is possible and anĪttack on the culture of narcissism and selfishness. ![]() Now comes the feminist cultural critic Bell Hooks with her new book of essays, ''All About Love,'' written in a didactic style that would merge moral philosophy with self-help. Self-help has its uses, however: it neatly undoes the facile ideas of left (we are powerless victims)Īnd right (we have total agency in our lives) alike, and it provides the calming reassurance that others out there are as messed up as you are. Relegated to self-help, a genre that many distrust for its propensity to propose simple answers where there are none. Nce upon a time, the philosophy of love was a fine subject for the man of ideas, like Erich Fromm or C. Bell Hooks affirms that love is possible, and condemns the culture of narcissism. ![]()
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