Buy a cheap copy of Against Love: A Polemic book by Laura Kipnis. Less against love than against the cultural constraints that leads us to create wrong-headed ideas of love, this is book is the perfect antidote to any lingering Free shipping over $ In Love’s Labors, the first chapter of Against Love: a Polemic, by Laura Kipnis, modern love is likened to that of an employer-employee relationship. Kipnis makes the contention that love, one of the most pervasive and seemingly fundamental concepts in human existence, is worth questioning, if only because its status as the ultimate. photo credit: Nina Subin. Laura Kipnis is a cultural critic and former video artist whose work focuses on sexual politics, aesthetics, shame, emotion, acting out, moral messiness, and various other crevices of the American psyche.
Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won't injure you (well not severely); it's just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions. A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Fresh Air, Publisher's Weekly. Laura Kipnis. • 3 Ratings; $; $; Publisher Description. Who would dream of being against love? No one. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. that "perhaps these social pathologies and aberrations of. Against love: a polemic Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Share to Tumblr. Share to Pinterest. Against love: a polemic by Kipnis, Laura. Publication date Topics Adultery Publisher New York: Pantheon Books Collection.
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. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions. Against Marriage ould be a much more accurate title for Laura Kipnis's book-length essay, Against Love: A Polemic. Kipnis says in a preface that her arguments are meant to be taken in a contrarian spirit, but I think that arguments made as the devil's advocate must still be coherent arguments--a criterion that not everything here seems to meet. Kipnis is quite willing to admit how fun love is, even if it makes you a little crazy.
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