All About Love: New Visions

By bell hooks

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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Published Jan 9, 2001

272 pages

Average rating: 8.17

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Readers say *All About Love: New Visions* by bell hooks is a transformative exploration redefining love as a conscious choice rooted in honesty, care,...

Sue Dix
6/10 stars
This book is worth reading but I found it to be less than profound.
Mengwe Wapimewah
10/10 stars
if i could give this six stars i would. BEST book that i have EVER read.
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10/10 stars
bell hooks for president
Oneezy
10/10 stars
Amazing read. Very reflective!
Maxihistorias
10/10 stars
great book with a great question: who teaches us how to love in society?

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