Vazgeçemediklerinin Toplamıdır İnsan

“A person is the sum of the things he cannot give up and cannot let go of, no matter where he turns or what he does. It is their accumulation within us that forms the basis of our existence. It precipitates and settles inside us in the form of crystals. We do not start life with a given identity, an essence recorded in our 'nature', that is waiting for us there from the very beginning. (…) We build ourselves step by step, literally creating something from nothing, with a supreme effort. We become human by mourning all the separations, losses and disappointments we experience, and by considering ourselves responsible for them, every broken relationship, and everything that hurts and hurts our loved ones. Without ever leaving. With every loss, by identifying with the person or thing we lost. We establish our identity by letting their shadow fall on us. By maintaining a strong core within the innermost being of our being that protects each of us from disloyalty and indifference. (…) We learn to thank and be grateful right from the start.” We are in times when traumas overlap and we are associated with intense and “bad” emotions. We grieve, or worse, we cannot, we are overwhelmed with sadness, we feel helpless, we are horrified by the lack of love and hatred we encounter. Of course, emotions are experienced as they come. But how we will live with them is something we need to think about. In this book, Erdoğan Özmen shows that emotions and reason, emotions and politics are not two unrelated spheres. He thinks about our emotional states, especially mourning and melancholy. It's quite simple, he actually thinks about evil and good. Essays written in a style that agrees with the sadness he faces, but also with passion and love of life.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Media Type: Paperback

Number of Pages: 263

Size: 14x21

First Print Year: 2017

Dough Type: 2.Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish