Sociology: family & relationships
A New Name for Love
by Belinda Cannone
Description
How to describe and understand modern relationships?
Belinda Cannone tracks the metamorphoses of love. From unions “for life” to love matches that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century, and to the twentieth-century revolutions that established desire as a requisite ingredient for a successful relationship.
These revolutions have their downsides: love, if it evolves, can last a lifetime whereas desire is more fleeting. So why stay in a relationship when the fire has gone out of it?
Renouncing “for life” is only possible if we acknowledge the nobility of desire. Viewed for too long as a sin, it is now valued, but not always for what it is. Other than in oppressive relationships, desire is a profoundly feminist question. It isn’t simply a physical need or a reproductive necessity, but a crucial experience that fully engages both mind and body. It is intimately bound up with love, and is its new name.
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Author Biography
Belinda Cannone is a novelist and essayist. She has had seven novels published (the latest, Nu intérieur, published by éditions de L’Olivier) and several essays, including L’Écriture du désir (winner of the 2001 Académie française essay prize), Le Sentiment d’imposture (winner of the 2005 Société des Gens de Lettres Grand Prix for an essay), La Tentation de Pénélope (Stock, 2010) and S’émerveiller (Stock, 2017).
Editions Stock (subsidiary of Hachette Livre SA)
Founded in 1708, Stock is one of the oldest publishing houses in France and has been part of the Hachette Group since 1961. In the prestigious series LA BLEUE, Stock publishes the finest multi-award winning writers from Françoise Sagan to Philippe Claudel, and new voices such as Adrien Bosc. Recently, it has expanded to include high-end women’s literary fiction. Its foreign fiction list (LA COSMOPOLITE series) includes great authors from Carson McCullers to Paolo Cognetti, from many languages. On the non-fiction side, the list is quite eclectic from philosophy (Louis Althusser) to thought-provoking investigation (Garance Le Caisne), and health with our best-selling author, Michel Cymes.
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- Publisher Editions Stock
- Publication Date September 2020
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782234089310
- Publication Country or regionFrance
- FormatHardback
- Pages234
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLe nouveau nom de l'amour
- Copyright Year2020
