Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewLove's Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and endurance of love, love that becomes real and endures 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gillian Rose , Michael WoodPublisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc Imprint: NYRB Classics Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.40cm Weight: 0.180kg ISBN: 9781590173657ISBN 10: 1590173651 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 31 May 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis beautiful memoir comes right from a genuinely thoughtful heart. It is good to find that philosophizing can offer its age-old consolations so present tensely. <br> --Elisabeth Young-Bruehl <br> In its emphasis on the work of living, suffering, and loving, this is a masterpiece of the autobiographer's art, intense and rationally decorous at the same time. <br> --Edward Said <br> This is not a pastel reverie, but a work in which the author, an English philosopher, feminist, and Marxist, not only bares her soul but carefully dissects it...Rose develops by contrast her notion of love's work: the obligation to go on thinking and caring in spite of the certainty of physical and moral defeat. Gillian Rose died shortly after completing this rigorous and lyrical book. -- The Boston Review <br> Powerful...a miracle. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> Intriguing. -- Boston Globe <br> Sears the page it occupies. -- Philadelphia Inquirer <br> Extraordinary. -- This is not a pastel reverie, but a work in which the author, an English philosopher, feminist, and Marxist, not only bares her soul but carefully dissects it...Rose develops by contrast her notion of love's work: the obligation to go on thinking and caring in spite of the certainty of physical and moral defeat. Gillian Rose died shortly after completing this rigorous and lyrical book. --@lt;i@gt;The Boston Review@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Powerful...a miracle. --@lt;i@gt;The New York Times Book Review@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Intriguing. --@lt;i@gt;Boston Globe@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Sears the page it occupies. --@lt;i@gt;Philadelphia Inquirer@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Extraordinary. --@lt;i@gt;Mirabella@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; An autobiography of astonishing elegance and concision, it is also deeply lyrical; a love song and a work song. --Michael Wood@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; This beautiful memoir comes right from a genuinely thoughtful heart. It is good t “This is not a pastel reverie, but a work in which the author, an English philosopher, feminist, and Marxist, not only bares her soul but carefully dissects it…Rose develops by contrast her notion of love's work: the obligation to go on thinking and caring in spite of the certainty of physical and moral defeat. Gillian Rose died shortly after completing this rigorous and lyrical book.” — The Boston Review <br>“Powerful…a miracle.” — The New York Times Book Review <br>“Intriguing.” — Boston Globe <br>“Sears the page it occupies.” — Philadelphia Inquirer <br>“Extraordinary.” — Mirabella <br>“An autobiography of astonishing elegance and concision, it is also deeply lyrical; a love song and a work song.” —Michael Wood <br>“This beautiful memoir comes right from a genuinely thoughtful heart. It is good to find that philosophizing can offer its age-old consolat Author InformationGillian Rose (1947-1995) was a professor at the University of Warwick in England, where she taught modern European philosophy, social and political thought, and theology. Her books include Nihilism, The Broken Middle, Judaism and Modernity, and Hegel. Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His works include books on Stendhal, Garcia Marquez, Nabokov, Kafka, and films. Additionally, he is a widely published essayist with articles on film and literature in Harpers, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, New Republic and others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
