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Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis
Against Love is a provocative book that poses questions and challenges conventional wisdom about love and fidelity. Author Laura Kipnis shows the dilemma of social and relationship structures of life-long monogamy versus the urge to stray once the passion and sex bleed away from the life as a couple. She argues that one of the reasons we are enthralled by the adultery of celebrities and politicians is that we secretly urge to commit adultery ourselves. If marriage is supposed to be hard work, then when what is the payoff for monagamy when it's no longer fun? Laura Kipnis turns love and relationships inside out and upside down and asks difficult questions without providing any answers of her own. Salon.com says, "As intellectual tracts go, Against Love is hugely entertaining. I can't remember the last time a Marxist-leaning academic made me laugh out loud, so heartily and so often. I have not been able to decide whether Against Love is scary-funny or funny-scary, so I'll leave it suspended somewhere nebulously between the two."
