Against Love by Laura Kipnis

Against Love by Laura Kipnis

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.

Laura Kipnis is a media studies professor at Northwestern University. The Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts have all given her fellowships and grants. She has written numerous essays and articles on sexual politics and current culture, both in the United States and internationally.

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ISBN 13	9780375719325
ISBN 10	0375719326
Title	Against Love
Author	Laura Kipnis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2004-09-14
Number of pages	224
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