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Love's Work
Taschenbuch von Gillian Rose
Sprache: Englisch

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Love's Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love, love that becomes real and lasting through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents' divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends' tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete-to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge ("I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs," Rose writes, "My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers") and with unsettling wisdom ("To live, to love, is to be failed"), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.
Love's Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love, love that becomes real and lasting through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents' divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends' tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete-to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge ("I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs," Rose writes, "My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers") and with unsettling wisdom ("To live, to love, is to be failed"), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.
Über den Autor
Gillian Rose
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 176
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781590173657
ISBN-10: 1590173651
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rose, Gillian
Hersteller: New York Review of Books
Maße: 205 x 128 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Gillian Rose
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2011
Gewicht: 0,188 kg
preigu-id: 101101345
Über den Autor
Gillian Rose
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 176
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781590173657
ISBN-10: 1590173651
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rose, Gillian
Hersteller: New York Review of Books
Maße: 205 x 128 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Gillian Rose
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2011
Gewicht: 0,188 kg
preigu-id: 101101345
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