All About Love: New Visions
Автор книги Bell Hooks
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The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word love lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of love, and they know that what we think love means is not always what they believe it means. Our confusion about what we mean when we use the word love is the source of our difficulty in loving. If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so. Mystifying dictionary definitions of love tend to emphasize romantic love, defining love first and foremost as profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person, especially when based on sexual attraction.
Of course, other definitions let the reader know 1 may have such feelings within a context that is not sexual. However, deep affection does not really adequately describe love's meaning. The vast majority of books on the subject of love work hard to avoid giving clear definitions. In the introduction to Diane Ackerman's a Natural History of Love, she declares love. She declares love is the great intangible.
A few sentences down from this, she suggests Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is. Coily she adds, we use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything. No definition ever appears in her book that would help anyone trying to learn the art of loving. Yet she is not alone in writing of love in ways that cloud our understanding. When the very meaning of the word is cloaked in mystery.
It should not come as a surprise prize that most people find it hard to define what they mean when they use the word love.