Title: It's a polemic....
Product review: Ms. Kipnis helpfully clarifies her position on "love" by calling her book a "polemic". Swift's treatise on the Irish problem of over-population and famine entitled "A Modest Proposal" was also a polemic and advocated cannibalism as a solution. Ms. Kipnis is not interested in presenting an empirically based "balanced" point of view but an hyperbolically stated skewering of a supposed ideal. This is provocative (and is meant to be). It is a point of view not generally expressed and it certainly made me think although I did not always agree with her conclusions.
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