In the Name of Love: Romantic Ideology and Its Victims

by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev and Ruhama Goussinsky

We yearn to experience the idealized love in so many novels, movies, poems, and popular songs. Ironically, it is the idealization of love that arms it with its destructive power. Popular media consistently remind us that love is all we need, but statistics concerning the rate of depression and suicides after divorce or romantic break up remind us what might happen if "all that we need" is taken away. This book is about our ideals of love, our experiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198566492
• ISBN13: 9780198566496
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"