Against Love: A Polemic - Rilegato

Kipnis, Laura

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ISBN 10: 0375421890 ISBN 13: 9780375421891

Casa editrice: Pantheon, 2003

Riassunto

An analysis of the social ramifications of adultery examines its cultural significance, considering that adulterers may pose valid political questions about social contracts and offering a utopian vision that challenges the modern purposes of fidelity. 17,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Laura Kipnis’s witty and cunning treatise against modern love is as trenchant and unexpected, as jubilantly incendiary a work of social criticism as I’ve read in years. It is an explosive pleasure.”
--Edward Hirsch

“Against Love is a wonderfully provocative book, daring and incisive, written with verve and no small amount of humor. It raises a thousand questions most of us lack the courage to ask, about domestic life and even the meaning of the human enterprise, while remaining at every instant a delight to read.”
--Scott Turow

“Deeply subversive, tough-minded, clear-thinking, provocative and shrewd, Against Love has the nerve to wonder out loud if marriage has evolved into an instrument of social control. Yet what’s so winning about Kipnis’s manifesto is its high-spirited lack of cynicism; she is not so much against love as for honesty.”
--James Atlas

L'autore:

Laura Kipnis is a professor of media studies at Northwestern University. She has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has published numerous essays and articles on sexual politics and contemporary culture both here and abroad.

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• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375421890
• ISBN 13: 9780375421891
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224