On Marriage Baum Devorah
On Marriage Baum Devorah A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker "As far back as our history books go, we have no…
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On Marriage Baum Devorah
A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker "As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book.
One might as well try to live beyond language.But when confronted with the question "What do intellectuals think of marriage?" Baum concludes that most philosophers have preferred to avoid the subject. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. Is marriage then an intellectual blind spot?
To fill in the gaps, she draws on a wide range of cultural material, from the classical to the contemporary, while interweaving reflections on her own