All About Love - The Deluxe Collector's Edition: New Visions

"The word ''love'' is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love . Here, at her most provacative, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explode th question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society''s failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life."

About the author

bell hooks was an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of America’s leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was the author of more than 17 books, including the New York Times bestseller All About Love: New Visions; Salvation: Black People and Love; Communion: the Female Search for Love, as well as the landmark memoir Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood.

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"Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." - Maya Angelou
"Like love, this book is worth the commitment." - Toronto Sun
"She provides a refreshing spiritual treatise that steps outside the confines of the intellect and into the wilds of the heart." - Seattle Weekly

Product details

• Authors: Bell Hooks
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2025
• EAN: 9780063463134
• ISBN: 978-0-06-346313-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Love Song to the Nation
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, History of art / art & design styles, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, History of Art, United States of America, USA, Psychotherapy: couples and families, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, Interpersonal communication and skills, Relating to African American / Black American people