However, because, according to de Botton, "love is a skill," we can all learn to equip ourselves better, and to challenge our beliefs about how to sustain it. We'll look at how our opinions and beliefs about love are often at odds with reality, and how expectations have been built around romanticism and marriage. This Briefer summary will guide us through relationship progression. This will be the real love story.' This summary of the couple's love journey provides a scaffold early on, which allows the reader to remain distanced, while also critically examining their inner worlds. They'll sometimes want to murder one another, and on a few occasions to kill themselves. Early on, we're told, 'He and Kirsten will marry. In The Course of Love, we're introduced to a fictional couple, Rabih and Kirsten, and the all-important narrator who adds wisdom and insight into the couple's relationship.
He provides a lens through which to analyze contemporary topics, and shows how philosophy can add tremendous insight into the banalities of everyday life. Through his fictional case study, De Botton instructs us how love grows and develops, changes course, and how our expectations need to shift alongside it.Īlain de Botton is a philosopher and author who merges experience with theories. The Course of Love is a fictional self-help book that looks at how we understand and sustain relationships. 'Love is a skill, rather than an enthusiasm.'
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