The Darkest Night, aforizmalardan oluşan, alt yapısında nihilizm, felsefe ve varoluşçuk barındıran bir aydınlanma kitabı. Aydınlanma dememin nedeni, birçok cümlede kendinizi sorgulamanızı sağlayacak fikirler barındırması. Hani rahatsız edici kitaplar deriz ya, işte öyle birşey. Okuyup da geçilecek değil, uzun uzun düşündürecek türden.
Genel kabul gören kurallar ve tabular yer yer reddediliyor. İnsanın düşündüklerinden ibaret olduğu ve belki de kimsenin göründüğü gibi olmadığı yine Cem beyin aforizmalarının arasında sık sık karşımıza çıkıyor. Dozunda ve yerinde bir kullanım ile ünlü düşünürlerin alıntılarına da yer verilmiş.
Hayat denilen bu yolda belki de zaman zaman kendimizi sorgulamaya ve farklı düşünce yapıları ile karşılaşmaya ihtiyacımız var. Çokça altını çizdim, bazı yerlerde Cem beyin keskin edebi zekasını da hissettim.
Kitap şimdilik İngilizce basım. Ama okunması rahat, Türkçesi çıkana kadar merak edenlere söylemiş olayım.
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The Darkest Night is an enlightenment book composed of aphorisms, underlying nihilism, philosophy, and existentialism. I say enlightenment because many sentences contain ideas that will make you question yourself. You know how we say "disturbing books"? Well, it's one of those. It's not the kind you read and move on from; it will make you think deeply.
Generally accepted rules and taboos are occasionally challenged. The idea that a person is defined by their thoughts, and perhaps that no one is what they seem, frequently appears in Mr. Cem's aphorisms. Quotations from famous thinkers are also included, used appropriately and in moderation.
Perhaps, on this journey called life, we sometimes need to question ourselves and encounter different ways of thinking. I underlined
Dedesi öldükten sonra vasiyet açılır: Evlendiği takdirde çiftlik ona kalacaktır.Fakat onun evlenmeye hiç niyeti yoktur; bu yüzden formalite icabı anlaşmalı evlilik yapabileceği birisini aramaya başlar. Bu sırada, çiftliğine izinsiz giren ve şelalede yüzen bir kadınla karşılaşır. Durumu biraz araştırınca, kadının bir bar sahibi olduğunu ve tıpkı kendisi gibi çok borcunun bulunduğunu öğrenir. Bunun üzerine kadına anlaşmalı evlilik teklif eder.Hem erkek karakteri hem de kadın karakteri severek okuduğum bir kitap oldu. Yazarın kalemini, ilk kitabında da çok sevmiştim. Kendisi kısa ve öz yazıyor, konuyu gereksiz yere uzatmıyor. Bana göre anlatımı oldukça yeterliydi. Konuya biraz gizem ve aksiyon da katmış; hepsini harmanlayınca ortaya gerçekten güzel bir iş çıkmış.Kitabın bendeki tek eksisi ise duygular açıklandıktan sonra başlayan cinsel sahnelerin sıklığı oldu; bir noktada "artık yeter" dedirtiyor. Bunun dışında açıkçası hiçbir olumsuz yönü yoktu.
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A Critical Review of Humankind
Rutger Bregman’s book Humankind is one of the books that questions negative ideas about human nature and makes readers think. For many years, many people believed that humans are naturally selfish, bad, and only care about themselves. However, Bregman does not agree with this idea. According to him, human nature is not as dark as people think. Instead, people are more willing to help each other, understand others’ feelings, and do good things. In the book, the author supports these ideas with many examples from wars, psychology experiments, history, and biology. One of the best parts of the book is that it gives hope about humanity. Still, when I finished the book, I did not only feel admiration. On one side, I was happy to read it because it made me think differently. On the other side, some of the author’s ideas felt too optimistic to me. Because of this, the book was both interesting and questionable for me.
One of the strongest parts of the book is that it makes people question ideas about human nature that many accept without thinking. Today, we often see violence, murder, wars, and fights on television, social media, and in the news. After some time, people start to believe that the world is full of bad people. At this point, Bregman asks an important question: If humans were really bad by nature, how could societies survive for so many years? A big part of human history was shaped by helping each other, working together, and surviving together. From this side, the writer’s ideas are important and meaningful.
His ideas against the belief that humans are naturally wild are especially interesting. Today, when someone behaves badly, people sometimes say, “Did you grow up in a cave?” However, Bregman says that hunter-gatherer societies were not as violent as many
Yazarın diline biraz alışmak zor ama daha önceden de okuduğum için ben hiçbir rahatsızlık duymadım. Bence akıyor gidiyor. Kitap diline alışmak biraz zor. Alıştıktan sonra bence akıyor gidiyor.
Yazarın diline biraz alışmak zor ama daha önceden de okuduğum için ben hiçbir rahatsızlık duymadım. Bence akıyor gidiyor. Kitap diline alışmak biraz zor. Alıştıktan sonra bence akıyor gidiyor.
"But, alas, I had done what I had determined not to do; I had slipped unthinkingly into praise of my own sex." (page: 121)
A Room of One's Own is best understood when we first reflect on what feminism actually represents. Is it merely a demand for equality? Or a rebellion against centuries of imposed roles and limitations placed upon women? Even today, when we read about the historical denial of women’s most basic rights and freedoms, we are still surprised, perhaps because contemporary society presents such a different image of gender roles.
Let us imagine a world in which women were confined solely to domestic responsibilities: raising children, sewing, and managing the household, often forced into marriage and denied access to education. A world in which they had no private space, not even half an hour truly their own. In Woolf’s argument, the absence of such material and intellectual space explains why fewer women emerged as successful writers. Without a room of one’s own, she suggests, a woman is also deprived of an inner world that belongs to her alone. Nothing is truly hers; everything is defined through ownership by men. Even the impulse to resist such conditions is gradually suppressed.
Woolf’s writing carries a clear sense of intellectual rebellion. She questions why women could not live as freely as men, and imagines the creative potential that might have emerged under equal conditions. She also attempts to explain male claims of superiority through psychological and social patterns: insecurity masked as dominance, and the need to define oneself as superior to at least half of society in order to compensate for internal doubt. Meanwhile, women, historically excluded even from libraries and formal education, were denied the very conditions necessary to
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