{"product_id":"book-h0lt","title":"In Defense of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shakespeare Wars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eExplaining Hitler\u003c\/i\u003e comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho wrote the book of love?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an impassioned polemic, Ron Rosenbaum—who has written books on the mysteries of Hitler’s evil, the magic of Shakespeare’s words, and the terrifying power of thermonuclear explosions—takes on perhaps his greatest challenge: the nature of love. Rosenbaum argues that what we know as love is imperiled now by the quantifiers, the digitizers, and their algorithms, who all seek to reduce love to electrical, chemical, and mathematical formulas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosenbaum brings excitement to his thinking as he interrogates the neuroscience of love, with its “trait constellations,” and the efforts of others to turn all human lovers into numerical configurations. He asks us why our culture has become so obsessed with codifying and quantifying love through algorithms. The very capacity that makes us human, Rosenbaum argues, is being taken over by numerical methods of explanation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is more than an examination of the intersection of love with literature and science. It is a celebration of the persistence of a mysterious and uncanny phenomenon: the inexorable power of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCover image: \u003c\/i\u003eThe Embrace\u003ci\u003e, 1970 by George Segal © 2023 The George and Helen Segal Foundation\/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49322749559088,"sku":"BDh0lt","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/358474-h0lt-Square.jpg?v=1733487851","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-h0lt","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}