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All about Love: New Visions

by Bell Hooks

Love as care, practice, and community

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Awards & Recognition

  • Bestseller

    New York Times bestseller; on the list for over a year

AlbakiReads Editorial

Love as care, practice, and community

In *All About Love: New Visions*, bell hooks asks how love should be understood and practiced beyond romantic desire. She frames love as an active commitment to care and compassion, connecting intimate relationships with the wider divisions of society. The book considers how people learn—or fail to learn—to love, and points to homes, schools, and workplaces as places where caring values can take shape. Its argument links personal relationships to collective life, treating community as part of the discussion rather than a separate concern. The first volume in hooks’ “Love Song to the Nation” trilogy, it brings together questions of love, social division, and the possibility of change.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in feminist cultural criticism and ideas about love beyond romance.
  • Readers exploring how care and compassion relate to family, work, education, and community.
  • Readers seeking a reflective discussion of love as both personal practice and social concern.

Themes

Love as a practice of careRomance and desireCommunity and social divisionCompassion in everyday institutions

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Book overview

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.

"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks speaks to society stricken with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love.

In this landmark book, bell hooks explores the question "What is love?" Disputing that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly love and community can change hearts and minds for the better.

 

  • Part of the groundbreaking "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy that includes Communion and Salvation
  • On the New York Times bestseller list for over a year.
  • Speaks to the mind and the heart about the transformational power of love to heal society.
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