You do not have to be a student of philosophy or metaphysics, nor be interested in them, to read this book. The famous Spanish philosopher simply and deeply delve into a series of ideas closely related to our daily lives, and from there he sets out to explain metaphysics and our need or lack thereof. “For metaphysics itself is nothing but what man does. What you and I do in our lives In conclusion, this life is something prior, and it comes before everything that metaphysics will reveal to us. In these lectures, which he delivered to his students in a regular semester, every reader will find an introduction to understanding the world and understanding himself, and everyone interested in philosophy will find a rich engagement with two main trends in the history of philosophy: realism and idealism.
The title of this book highlights the characteristic of the author’s production. “Studies” means research, contemplation, and theory, while the word “love” means a permanent event in human life, and a feeling that rational philosophy sees as a confused and ambiguous mixture about which it is not possible to conduct intellectual research. But the writer here fulfills the imperative duty he formulated: “Theory must open its clear eyes to subjective life from time to time. The viewer guesses and looks, but what he wants to see is life as it flows before him.” In this study, the writer isolates the essence of love and purifies it, removing from it all the additions that obscure its realistic nature and complicate its process. It is love explained based on psychological and phenomenological research at the same time, and even on social research, since choice in love is considered one of the most effective factors in history.
I mean: If that were the case, how much of our dignity, human solidarity, and sense of humanity have we lost until we became accustomed to the humiliation surrounding us, for ourselves and for others?! We have even come to accept this violence and inhumane treatment with which we or others are treated as we see it in life or when we read about it or see it on television. (We will ignore that we sometimes treat others in this way: our children, our subordinates, or those who fall into our hands among our enemies, for example, or the prisoners in our hands, assuming that some of those who carry out these tasks can read what I write). Our habituation to this humiliation is reflected in the fact that we have come to accept that torturing a prisoner is a given. We no longer wonder about the effect of that torture on the prisoner-victim, even after his release from prison, just as we no longer wonder about the effect of torture on its perpetrator. Can he easily return to his normal daily life after leaving the torture room, as if he left the toilet to resume his life? This is the first time I have gathered my thoughts on this topic after many attempts and articles scattered in more than one place.
An ambitious mother passionate about medicine suffers and collapses from the transformations imposed by the totalitarian government’s control in all aspects of her social, political, and personal life, depriving her of her passion, identity, and even her desire for motherhood. A dreamy daughter attached to life lives under the care of her grandmother, because her mother often stays away from her. She lives in conflict in a society governed by fear of any difference, in which every desire for uniqueness becomes a crime that must be eliminated. Through the turbulent and volatile relationship between mother and daughter and the story of three generations of Latvian women during the Soviet control of their country, Nora Kstina tells a transparent story about motherhood, love, the desire to live, and hope.
In late October, a writer specializing in the lives of saints gives a lecture in a remote northern Swedish village. After the lecture ends, an old man approaches her to tell her that she will stay with him for the night. Her stay with him is prolonged due to a snow storm that cuts off the road, during which she learns more about the life of her host Hadar, who suffers from cancer, and the strange competition that links him with his brother and neighbor Ulf, who suffers from heart disease. About two brothers who share a lot in common and are linked by a tangled relationship of jealousy, rivalry, guilt, and a strange guest who becomes the engine of this relationship, Torgny Lindgren tells with dark irony in his Auguste Prize-winning novel, Sweetness, a different story about brotherhood.
"Sophie Perrin" is a French woman who is fond of speed and hates stability. Her sadness is sudden but authentic, her desires are sudden but stem from existential anxiety, and her questions are many but they hide deep wounds. And Hanifa Kamal, the stubborn Kurdish girl, lived a miserable childhood in Aleppo, which ended in painful torture when her father was forced to choose between two wives, and the decision was to divorce her mother and move them away to a distant village. There is an “umbilical cord” connecting the two, which will only be revealed with “Paola,” who decides to travel from Paris to Aleppo. In her novel, Maha Hassan takes us to the world of the Kurds in Syria, with all its rituals, customs and traditions, highlighting their suffering in a country in which they live, but which is cruel to them. It moves between two cultures: the West and the East, and in doing so it raises the question of identity, its true component, and the question of belonging and its meaning.
In a time when speech has no value, Younes decided to remain silent. What is the benefit of what he says when he is weak, strange, and free from the constraints of twenty-six years that he spent in a world of fear, loneliness, and near death?!! Wherever he went and wherever he moved, he was pursued by curses and oppression. Even his attempts to search for a part of his precious past with his wife and son were useless...! In his relationship with “Abu Al-Rish,” he felt some reassurance from all the alienation that nestled in his heart, but that was not enough for him to find stability and end his torment and loneliness!! The new circumstances of the country, and the changes in the government, increase his flight and confusion, despite his attachment to all the good people who surrounded him during his ordeal. “Younes” who longed for everything... nothing saved him!!
In his childhood, Tammuz watched a film about the life of a young boy, and through it he was surprised at how much cinema can convey human lives and their details: “There is someone far away who lives just like me!” Since that time, he became fond of films, and their heroes became friends with whom he lived. In his youth, he traveled to Dubai, to collect money and realize his dream of studying cinema, but he became immersed in the worlds of sex and money and moved away from his dream, until the revolution and then the war broke out in Syria, when he woke up from his nightmare and realized that hundreds of films were waiting for him in his homeland to wake them from their slumber. “Between Ropes of Water” is a novel about the love of cinema, in which Rosa Yassin Hassan combines, with a unique technique, reality with films, so that we can hardly distinguish between reality and imagination, we meet characters we loved, we read phrases we heard, and we re-draw scenes we liked...
Jeremy visits the island of Mauritius, to investigate his family history, and search for the last traces of the extinct dodo bird. His journey intersects with an opposite journey undertaken by Dominic, a tramp who was born to laugh, as he says about himself. Between the two journeys, stories reproduce and multiply, and as the narrative progresses, the world of Alma is built, which modern times have transformed into “Maya Land”: a land of illusions.
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“In this book, Sadiq Al-Azm wanted to analyze the causes of the defeat and theoretically propose a response to it, before he realized that, like many others, it was a recurring defeat, not resulting from “external conspiracies,” but rather from a persistent Arab inability, shared by both the peoples and the authorities. And this defeat The recurring nature that responds to every defeat with a new defeat is what makes the book retain its relevance. The defeat whose causes were explained is still continuing, the reasons it criticized are still present, and the mentality that justifies what cannot be justified is growing, growing, and active. However, the true importance of the book is not It consists in illuminating a historical tragedy, specific to time, but rather in the free critical approach, which explains human disappointments with human causes, without referring to a vague reference.” Faisal Darraj
John is assigned a strange mission: to investigate the truth about a rare love story in the ocean country. But he soon noticed that the country he came to had no children. Little by little, the truth is revealed to him that people are afflicted with a strange disease that is leading them to their end. The women revolt and the authorities confront them by denying the problem, and a brutal war breaks out, the smallest details of which are recorded by John in his report, while he continues to search for the alleged love story, but what will happen when he discovers the only man who has not been infected with the disease? In "The Women Who...", one character breathlessly delivers the story to the other, thus building the architecture of the novel that presents, within the folds of its strangeness, imagination, and unreality of its events, a legendary story, but it is verifiable in our real world.
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From a meeting between Mihai, who is spending his honeymoon in Italy, with an old friend, the events of this novel begin. He soon finds himself leaving his wife at a train station, and begins his own journey, searching for himself and the memories of his youth. Traveling from one city to another, Mihai experiences the anxiety of his existential questions, and meets friends of that period. He learns the reason for Tamas’ suicide, and Eva’s relationship to this incident, but what does he really want from recalling stories told by time? In this novel, which is considered one of the most prominent Hungarian novels in the modern era, which achieved great success, was translated into several languages, and was adapted for theater and cinema, the reader feels as if the author is able to penetrate his depths, and not only the depths of his characters.
“Adham” was born multiple times, which is difficult to count. And in each of his births, he carries a different personality and another life, to the point where he can be described as multiple versions of a single human being, or to borrow what he says about himself: “I am all formulations. Open endings and closed beginnings. I am the ultimate formula. I am everyone, women and men, a part.” A masculine part in a feminine personality, and a feminine part in a masculine personality. I am the one who desires immortality. In this novel, Maha Hassan reaches the height of experimentation in writing, ignoring the rules, surrendering herself to the pleasure of storytelling, to the philosophy and philosophies of her hero, trying to write his biography in his endless births.
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In 1949, writer Helen Hanff began correspondence with a used bookstore in London, asking them to help her secure some classic books that she could not find in New York. Over the course of 20 years, letters are exchanged between her and the store’s employees, especially Frank Doyle, who secures the books and sends them to her. This correspondence begins with a request for a copy of Hazlitt’s Three Essays and gradually deepens, building a transparent human relationship between book lovers on both sides of the ocean. In the details of their personal lives on the one hand, and chronicling the history of the two countries on the other hand, it includes talk about the food crisis in Britain after rationing, the pivotal elections in both countries, the sports clubs, their social life, Frank’s family news, the development of Helen’s professional career, and even the method of making pudding.
Tirano Benderas suspects Colonel Domitiano della Gondra of conspiring against him, and when he discovers a simple mistake committed by the latter, he provides the tyrant with the pretext he needs to arrest him, so he issues a secret order for his arrest, but a prostitute who can read minds knows about this, and warns the colonel. In the midst of the country's annual celebrations, Della Gondra flees and joins the rebels against the tyrant's rule. In this novel, which is considered one of the first novels written in the Spanish language about the dictator, before other writers from Latin America entered this field, “Ramon del Paye Inclán” presents a vivid depiction of the character of the tyrant, in a circular structure, full of short chapters and closed scenes that together constitute A rich text with its internal rhythm, wonderful images, and multiple linguistic levels.
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