Learning to Love: A Review of All About Love: New Visions
by bell hooks
When I was a child, it was clear to me that life was not worth living if we did not know love. — bell hooks
Renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist, bell hooks, doesn’t pull any punches in All About Love. She peels away the layers society uses to mystify love and exposes the vital essence of the art of loving. Knowing intimately the pain of lovelessness, hooks offers a proactive new ethic for people and society similarly bereft of love.
Incendiary and intensely personal, hooks explores the question “What is love?” Her answers resonate deeply, while she provides methods to practice the art of loving. In thirteen pithy, but piercing chapters, hooks ponders her personal search for love, as well as society’s failure to provide a blueprint for learning to love while torching the cultural idea that love is an instinctive feeling that can’t be controlled, hooks teaches readers to accept the deep wounds of lovelessness and strive to learn the art of loving, leading to healing, redemption, and transformation.
This book is truly transformative.
hooks takes care to define love, offering readers a map for how to practice loving oneself and others. She expresses the feelings of pain and despair that lovelessness caused in her own life…
