{"product_id":"in-defense-of-love-9780385536554","title":"In Defense of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 capac","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401959645527,"sku":"9780385536554","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-defense-of-love-9780385536554","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}