{"product_id":"all-about-love","title":"All about Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom one of America's most revered thinkers offers radical new ways to think about love, and examines the relationship between love and sexuality, and the connections between the public and the private.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"She provides a refreshing spiritual treatise that steps outside the confines of the intellect and into the wilds of the heart.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - Seattle Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark book, bell hooks explores the question \"What is love?\" Her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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. \u003cem\u003eAll About Love \u003c\/em\u003eis a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly love and community can change hearts and minds for the better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBell Hooks\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eAll About Love: New Visions; Salvation: Black People and Love; Communion: the Female Search for Love, \u003c\/em\u003e as well as the landmark memoir \u003cem\u003eBone Black: Memories of Girlhood\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bell Hooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709193376029,"sku":"9780060959470","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780060959470.jpg?v=1705176642","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/all-about-love","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}