What Love Is, Carrie Jenkins
What Love Is, Carrie Jenkins
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What Love Is
And What It Could Be

Author: Carrie Jenkins

Narrator: Carrie Jenkins

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/01/2017

Synopsis

What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social construct (the idea of a perfect fairy tale romance) and a physical manifestation (those anxiety- inducing heart palpitations); we must recognize its complexities and decide for ourselves how to love. Motivated by her own polyamorous relationships, she examines the ways in which our parameters of love have recently changed-to be more accepting of homosexual, interracial, and non-monogamous relationships-and how they will continue to evolve in the future. Full of anecdotal, cultural, and scientific reflections on love, What Love Is is essential listenen for anyone seeking to understand what it means to say "I love you." Whether young or old, gay or straight, male or female, polyamorous or monogamous, this audiobook will help each of us decide for ourselves how we choose to love.

About Carrie Jenkins

Carrie Jenkins is an award-winning philosopher, novelist, and poet. She is also professor of philosophy and Canada research chair at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by kaelan

I had high hopes for this one. Carrie Jenkins—an analytic metaphysician with a background in mathematical logic—writing on an obviously important topic that had hitherto been ignored by the academic philosophical community. Unfortunately, What Love Is fails to deliver. While philosophy has a long and......more

Goodreads review by Dedeker

As a long-time practitioner of non-monogamy, it is so refreshing to delve into a book with a philosophical focus rather than a pragmatic one. Jenkins handles the deconstruction of romantic love thoroughly, courageously, and with a touch of humor. Regardless of one's relationship format, this book pr......more

Goodreads review by Vicki

Is love purely biological? Is it just a social construct? Is it both? Is it a mystery better left unexplored? University of British Columbia philosophy professor Carrie Jenkins delves into this thing called love with an open mind and heart, and encourages us to explore it for ourselves. As she says,......more

Goodreads review by Chris

As deliberately obtuse as works of philosophy can be What Love Is is a refreshingly accessible and fun read. Carrie Jenkins explores "romantic love" what it is, how it has evolved, and what it can become. Starting with the rather sparse coverage love has gotten from the philosophical cannon, Carrie......more

Goodreads review by Joli

Fascinating, digestible philosophy- what more could I ask? Jenkins introduces philosophical tools and concepts through the engaging topic of love. The flow of her argument gently guided me into deep waters while providing ample support to understand how I could take apart the artifacts of my own lif......more

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