{"product_id":"the-enduring-kiss-seven-short-lessons-on-love-paperback-softback-9781509542499","title":"The Enduring Kiss; Seven Short Lessons on Love (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509542499","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Enduring Kiss\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSeven Short Lessons on Love\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMassimo Recalcati (Author), Alice Kilgarriff (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509542499, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.6 x 12.7 x 1 cm, 0.136 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Both provocative and persuasive. Massimo Recalcati taps a rich seam of experience and analytic perception in this brief, elegant essay on love. The lessons he offers navigate us through love’s many turns and as many of its literary greats. All the while, he holds up a mirror to the predations of desire under capitalism, offering us instead an image of love in which the possibility of a' forever’ exists in an intimacy of strangers.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Appignanesi, author of \u003ci\u003eEveryday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and\u003c\/i\u003e Love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book’s proclamations yield flashes of real wisdom”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[Recalcati’s] style entrances… the lyricism and spaciousness of his prose only intensify its impact.  At times \u003ci\u003eThe Enduring Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e reads like poetry, fluent and heedless, as if written in a sensual delirium.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out their hiding holes, finding their peace from war. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that declares love with the body of the lover. And the extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one’s beloved announces the demise of love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this short book, Massimo Recalcati – one of Italy’s leading intellectuals and bestselling authors – offers seven brief lessons on the mystery and miracle of love, from the serendipity of the first encounter to its end or its continuation over time, as mysterious and miraculous as the first encounter itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Promise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Desire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Children\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Betrayal and Forgiveness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Violence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Separations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Enduring Love\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453591449880,"sku":"9781509542499","price":11.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509542499.jpg?v=1785287334","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-enduring-kiss-seven-short-lessons-on-love-paperback-softback-9781509542499","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}