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Against Love; a polemic, Laura kipnis, First edition, hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780375421891
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375421890
ISBN-13
9780375421891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2435857
Product Key Features
Book Title
Against Love : a Polemic
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-042022
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Laura Kipnis's witty and cunning treatise against modern love is as trenchant and unexpected, as jubilantly incendiary a work of social criticism as I've read in years. It is an explosive pleasure." --Edward Hirsch "Against Love is a wonderfully provocative book, daring and incisive, written with verve and no small amount of humor. It raises a thousand questions most of us lack the courage to ask, about domestic life and even the meaning of the human enterprise, while remaining at every instant a delight to read." --Scott Turow "Deeply subversive, tough-minded, clear-thinking, provocative and shrewd, Against Love has the nerve to wonder out loud if marriage has evolved into an instrument of social control. Yet what's so winning about Kipnis's manifesto is its high-spirited lack of cynicism; she is not so much against love as for honesty." --James Atlas
Dewey Decimal
306.73/6
Synopsis
"Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?" So begins Laura Kipnis's profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch'sThe Culture of Narcissism,Against Lovekeenly examines the meaning and cultural significance of adultery, arguing that perhaps the question concerns not only the private dilemma of whether or not to be faithful, but also the purpose of this much vaunted fidelity. With a novelist's eye for detail, psychological acuity, and linguistic panache, Kipnis at once humorously and seriously explores the rules and rituals of modern coupledom and domesticity (from the establishment of curfews and whereabouts to actual searches and seizures), even as she deftly analyzes the larger power structures that they serve. She wonders: Might adulterers be regarded not only as sexual renegades but as unwitting social theorists posing essential political questions about the social contract itself? What is the trade-off between personal gratification and the renunciations society demands of us? And is "working at your relationship" just another way of propping up the work ethicæas if we weren't all overworked enough as it is? If adultery is ultimately a referendum on the sustainability of monogamy, how credible is the basic premise of modern coupledom: that desire for your one and only love can and will persist through a lifetime of togetherness (despite so much evidence to the contrary)? Against Loveoffers no easy answers. Rather it intends to engage you in a commonsensical and brave examination of the plight of the modern personality, caught between the vicissitudes of desire and the decrees of social conformity.
LC Classification Number
HQ806.K48 2003
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