All About Love

Published 2000

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O que é o amor, afinal? Será esta uma pergunta tão subjetiva, tão opaca? Para bell hooks, quando pulverizamos seu significado, ficamos cada vez mais distantes de entendê-lo. Neste livro, primeiro volume de sua Trilogia do Amor, a autora procura elucidar o que é, de fato, o amor, seja nas relações familiares, românticas e de amizade ou na vivência religiosa. Na contramão do pensamento corrente, que tantas vezes entende o amor como sinal de fraqueza e irracionalidade, bell hooks defende que o amor é mais do que um sentimento — é uma ação capaz de transformar o niilismo, a ganância e a obsessão pelo poder que dominam nossa cultura. É através da construção de uma ética amorosa que seremos capazes de edificar uma sociedade verdadeiramente igualitária, fundamentada na justiça e no compromisso com o bem-estar coletivo. *** Em uma sociedade que considera falar de amor algo naïf, a proposta apresentada …

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not for me

I've heard great things about bell hooks but I really didn't like this book. There were lots of sweeping statements and some gender stereotypes in very heterosexual examples. I don't understand why she needed a definition of love, and I don't agree that it has anything to do with spirituality, so it fell apart for me early. Lots of Christian stuff. Some things felt all over the place, like she had a dream of her "true love" then met him at a conference but he was already in a relationship? Then she says well not all love is romantic (for sure!) but doesn't follow up. How was this guy your true love? Did you form a deep friendship, do you keep in touch? Then angels came into play... She advocates for forgiveness and also urged her lesbian sister not to create distance with their homophobic parents... A lot just didn't …

I know I'll come back to this book again and again

All About Love is everything Radikale Zärtlichkeit fails to be. Courageous, risky, introspective. As usual, bell hooks' writing is clear and deep.

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Subjects

  • Feminist ethics
  • Love
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Popular Culture
  • African American Studies
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Ethnic Studies
  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2021-03-14
  • New York Times bestseller
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Forgiveness
  • Honesty
  • Culture