Against Love by Laura Kipnis

Against Love by Laura Kipnis

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.

Kipnis, Laura: -

Laura Kipnis is a cultural critic and a professor at Northwestern University, where she teaches filmmaking. She is the author of six previous books, including Against Love: A Polemic and Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Yaddo, among others, and has written for Slate, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum. Her essay Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe was included in The Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen. She lives in New York and Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9780375421891
ISBN 10	0375421890
Title	Against Love
Author	Laura Kipnis
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	2003-08-26
Number of pages	207
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