Aşkta Kaybeden Büyük Filozoflar (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
It's humor people.This is not a serious book but a fun and giggly series of lighthearted anecdotes. These are some of the most influential thinkers in the western world, yet they are reduced in this book to the most human proclivities. Sartre and De Beauvior seemed to have a lifelong running bet as to who was the biggest womanizer, Rousseau fancied himself a wee spank from time to time, Camus was a bit of the ladies man, and Ayn Rand was a jealous cougar-shrew, whose husband never left her despite her extra-marital activities. A lot of people demanded that this book be better written, however I think the title betrays the intent of the light humor and schadenfreude contained within. It wasn't meant to be a serious book, although it seems well researched enough. It's a fun little book for philosophy buffs. A really quick and fun read about the (mostly) failed love lives of history's greatest Western philosophers and writers. Most of them are French, German, Russian, or American. It is hard to determine whether some of them really felt like they had failed. The ones who succeeded in their own eyes seemed to have pull off a very lucrative and bohemian lifestyle where ownership and monogamy were not part of the picture. Or they just married many times until they were too old to care eventually. Mostly dark views on marriage are upheld in this little anthology, telling the woes of commitment, the lack of freedom, and the doubling of duties. These men (and women) were crazy in my opinion..making for an entertaining read!
What do You think about Aşkta Kaybeden Büyük Filozoflar (2000)?
The book is about exactly what it says its about, only far funnier than you think it is.
—Emsc89
