As we are only days away from Valentine’s Day, I think the best thing will be again to bury our heads in a book, which explains love from a different perspective.
The 14th day of February which has become a big money-making machine for the corporate sector as an average annual Valentine’s Day spending is $19 Billion that definitely puts a big smile on the faces of big business.
But it is also a day for many, a day of unhappiness, stress, and frustration. It is the discomfort of not having anyone to share this day, with sharing love and companionship.
Alain Badiou answers the questions of the writer and journalist Nicolas Truong in this book which reads as an essay rather than an interview.
He describes the love which should be seen as an adventure and constant exploration of the other individual rather than being caught up between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion.
This book by Alain Badiou is an easy read which also mentions the meaning of love by the thinkers from Plato to Karl Marx and touches the subject romance, relationship, and sex with smooth, soulful and gives us a thoughtful and expressive explanation of love.
Badiou’s wisdom can be read in his lines of love and evolves the reader also into the conversation and every reader will find something on love in this book which is captured with great pleasure.
“What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.”
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