In Defense of Love by Ron Rosenbaum


ISBN
9780385536554
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
272

From the acclaimed author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age.

There is a battle raging for the soul of love. Since time immemorial, we have embarked on a quest to understand the nature of love, seeking clarity in everything from astrology's constellations to phrenology's bumps on the head. Recently, the answers offered by advancing science have been taken up by neuroscience popularizers and have caused tectonic shifts in popular culture's idea of love.

Ron Rosenbaum, who brings the same rigor to his thinking on love as he did to his analysis of the unique qualities of Shakespeare's writing in The Shakespeare Wars, interrogates love's identity in the public imagination over centuries to probe the secrets of its power. He investigates the new science of love through such aspects as "trait constellations" and the effort to turn all human lovers into numbers.

What is love? Is it a diffuse feeling or a quantifiable chemical reaction? What is a chance meeting and what is the result of chemical determinism? And most importantly, why have we become so obsessed with codifying and quantifying love through science? The very capacity that makes us human, Rosenbaum argues, is being taken over by numerical methods of analysis.

In Defence of Love is more than an examination of the intersection of love with literature and science. It is a celebration of the persistence of a mysterious and noble phenomenon- the power of surrendering to love.
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