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February 27, 2013 - Group discussion of the prologue and first chapter of Laura Kipnis ;s book , Against Love: A Polemic . The book ;s argument is studded with references to Freud and Marx and Marcuse, but done in such a flip and enjoyable way (and with thumbnail sketches of their love lives) that it feels like gossip, not scholarship.Coffee Cup ;s Contemplations - Book Review: Against Love- A Polemic Against Love: A Polemic is a medicine of sorts, complete with usage instructions and warnings on the label, composed with the intent of combating an illness manifested as extremely unhealthy ideas about love and marriage. . Laura Kipnis 2003, Pantheon Books ISBN 0-375-42189-0 201 pages, $24.00. asexy beast: Against Love I thought this book , Against Love: A Polemic , would be amusing to read along with Dancing in the Dark, which gets a little gooey at times. WFMU: The Ed Shepp Radio Experiment: Playlist from January 11 . In this advisory, she asks whether our “uniformity of opinion” about love —the way in which we idealize it without questioning it as a social institution—is “a bit worrisome” (3), and thus justifies the need for a polemic against it. Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis Kipnis brilliantly examines how modern love has become "a new form of mass conscription" in this treatise that begins . Against Love: A Polemic [NOOK Book] (Book 2009) - Barnes & Noble Against Love: A Polemic [NOOK Book] by; Laura Kipnis; Add to List + Add to List + My B&N Library; My Favorites; My NOOK Book Wish List; Reading Now; Against Love: A Polemic - Laura Kipnis - Google Books 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. Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis | Erin O ;RourkeNot so difficult, as one of my favorite authors, bell hooks, writes extensively on the subject. Against Love and Freedom | The Bananafish and Other Stories Against Love and Freedom. Up Against Love (Aaron Swartz ;s Raw Thought)Up Against Love. rebecca mead | love ;s labour | poetry dispatch & other notes from the . Book is shipped in a padded envelope and packaged in bubble wrap.. Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis | 9780375421891. The purpose of a polemic such as this one, she says, is to “poke . Middle Age Waistline: Against Love , By Laura KipnisAgainst Love, By Laura Kipnis. Polemics are sort of fun if . Options January 11, 2007: Against Love: A Polemic . August 19, 2011 by Lisa Summers. But of all the feminist literature I ;ve read, from Judith Butler-style high theory to photocopied ;zines, it is Laura Kipnis ; Against Love: A Polemic that most profoundly changed the way I think about politics. Against Love: A Polemic | Powell ;s Bookstores Chicago Book BlogLaura Kipnis ;s Against Love is a lively and cutting polemic against the inherently human emotion that makes the world go ;round, love , and its shackled companion, marriage. Third Waving: Kipnis ; Polemic Against Love Kipnis begins her polemic with a necessary reader advisory, something I kept referring back to when I began the book so I wouldn ;t become to emotionally attached to her ideas. This means that the author, Laura Kipnis, doesn ;t need to . But of course there was that one book that seemed so absurd I had to go for it. Laura Kipnis ;s Against Love: A Polemic . When Laura Kipnis ;s Against Love: A Polemic came out, reviewers seemed to have trouble understanding what it was about