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  Against Love A Polemic
Laura Kipnis
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0375719326
ISBN-13: 9780375719325
Price: £8.00
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Who would dream of being against love? No one.
Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions.
But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. 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 armchair. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.
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