Love's Work

Powerful…a miracle * New York Times *In its emphasis on the work of living, suffering, and loving, this is a masterpiece of the autobiographer’s art, intense and rationally decorous at the same time – Edward SaidExtraordinarily beautiful – Olivia LaingMagnificent…Makes whatever else has been written on the deepest issues of human life by the philosophers of our time seem intolerably abstract and even frivolous – Arthur DantoThis small book contains multitudes…It provokes, inspires, and illuminates more profoundly than many a bulky volume, and it delivers what its title promises, a new allegory about love – Marina Warner * London Review of Books *Rich, satisfying, desirable … I struggle to think of a finer, more rewarding short autobiography than this – Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *The philosopher’s laconic, lyrical memoir displays an unsettling yet wholly inspirational vigour in the face of life-threatening disease – Lindesay Irvine * Guardian *This is not a pastel reverie, but a work in which the author, an English philosopher, feminist, and Marxist, not only bares her soul but carefully dissects it…Rose develops by contrast her notion of love’s work: the obligation to go on thinking and caring in spite of the certainty of physical and moral defeat. Gillian Rose died shortly after completing this rigorous and lyrical book * Boston Review *Sears the page it occupies * Philadelphia Inquirer *This beautiful memoir comes right from a genuinely thoughtful heart. It is good to find that philosophizing can offer its age-old consolations so present tensely – Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Gillian Rose

Gillian Rose studied philosophy at the Universities of Oxford, Columbia and Berlin. She was Professor at the University of Warwick where she worked in modern European philosophy, social and political thought, and theology. Her books include Dialectic of Nihilism, The Broken Middle, Judaism and Modernity and Hegel. She died in December 1995.

Madeleine Pulman-Jones

Madeleine Pulman-Jones was born in London. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in publications including PN Review and Modern Poetry in Translation.