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. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft 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.

As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm 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. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

In a society that's often driven by power, manipulation, and self-interest, bell hooks’ "All About Love: New Visions" emerges as a refreshing and courageous exploration of love's transformative power. Addressing a broad audience, hooks invites readers to journey with her beyond conventional ideas of romance towards a more inclusive and expansive definition of love. This work challenges the common narrative that equates love merely with desire or dependency, proposing instead a narrative that prizes honesty, compassion, and respect over conquest or captivation.

Her exploration delves into personal and societal dimensions, urging us to reconsider how we think about love in all its forms—romantic, familial, and communal.

True love transcends eros and enters into compassion respect and understanding. Societal norms can inhibit genuine love; redefining them is crucial for personal growth. Love is an active choice demanding honesty and responsibility not passivity.

All About Love: New Visions" is a profound exploration of love\'s multifaceted role in human experience. Through her incisive prose bell hooks challenges readers to rise above superficial relationships encouraging a re-evaluation of conventional beliefs about love as a mere expression of eros or temporary infatuation. Instead hooks reimagines love as a practice and commitment rooted in mutual care and shared growth.

Drawing from both personal anecdotes and critical cultural analysis she identifies how modern society's obsession with materialism and individualism often distorts and devalues genuine human connections.

Hooks argues that traditional gender roles and consumer culture perpetuate myths about love that can confine individuals to destructive patterns She insists that significant change occurs when people start seeing love as an action rather than just a feeling promoting a fundamental shift in our approach to relationships Honest communication and vulnerability she argues lay the groundwork for deep and fulfilling bonds By addressing the fear of intimacy the book challenges preconceived notions propelling readers toward a more profound understanding and practice of love.