Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

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A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished thinkers, to illuminate the deepest issues of our lives: love, friendship, sex, illness, and death. Rose's crisis gives her search the force of immediacy and intimacy; her willingness to face life unsentimentally propels her toward the unexplored border between life and death. As she confronts the dilemma faced by all humankind - how to teach the mind what the heart knows, and the heart what the mind understands - ...
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A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished thinkers, to illuminate the deepest issues of our lives: love, friendship, sex, illness, and death. Rose's crisis gives her search the force of immediacy and intimacy; her willingness to face life unsentimentally propels her toward the unexplored border between life and death. As she confronts the dilemma faced by all humankind - how to teach the mind what the heart knows, and the heart what the mind understands - Rose finds that attention to loss becomes the silence of grace, and that the personal becomes the universal. Extraordinarily candid and elegant, Love's Work is radiant as both memoir and philosophy; it provides a new model for introspection.

Writing with rare power and insight, one of England's most distinguished thinkers and scholars takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the soul, plumbing her own life in an attempt to illuminate the deepest issues of all human life: love, family, friendship, sexuality, illness, and death.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
In a memoir by turns brilliant and exasperating, Rose, who teaches philosophy in England, travels between the adjoining territories of love and death after being diagnosed with-and receiving brutal and ambiguously effective treatment for-abdominal cancer. ``Keep your mind in hell, and despair not,'' she admonishes herself, rejecting both the uncertain certainties of traditional medicine and the sterile idealism of New Age healing. Instead, she puts her shoulder to the wheel of ``love's work,'' getting down in the muck of mortal experience rather than straining futilely to rise above it. Along the way, Rose discusses such worldly subjects as growing up with dyslexia and divorce, finding relief from deadening school lessons in Plato and Pascal and sharing a bed with a Catholic priest. She doesn't wear her extravagant learning lightly (Greek- and German-studded passages and the constant reaching for aphorism may alarm the uninitiated), but her unusual love story rewards the labor it demands. It cuts to the quick. (Jan.)
Library Journal
Part intellectual coming-of-age tale and part spiritual memoir, Rose's (political thought, Univ. of Warwick) search for the soul takes her on a wildly dizzying ride through despair and hope, sickness and healing, love and death. With searing honesty, Rose searches for meaning during her own violent bout with abdominal cancer and after the sickness and death of several close friends. She concludes that traditional religions and alternative healing methods are inadequate for her search because they fail to plumb the depths of the human need for the restorative powers of love. In prose both torturous and exalted, Rose's memoir questions the easy love of much spirituality and argues instead that love is difficult and rewarding because it both binds and loosens us to one another and to God. An interesting, though not necessary, purchase.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780805241358
  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 9/30/1995
  • Pages: 160
  • Product dimensions: 5.35 (w) x 7.82 (h) x 0.69 (d)

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