كه يلان محمد
Not surprisingly, some scholars treat love as an existential problem. As did the Egyptian thinker Zakaria Ibrahim in his book (The Problem of Love). In turn, The Iraqi writer Ali Hussein preferred to have the title of his latest book on the emotional experience of thirty personalities from diverse cultural, intellectual and artistic backgrounds in the form of a question. (The question of love from Tolstoy to Einstein – Dar Al-Mada 2018) The fact that love is an equation that does not accept laboratory answers, Therefore, the question remains on the table, Note that what is circulating in philosophical blogs and scientific theses about love may exceed what has been addressed for any other concept.
This is in addition to the abundance of artistic and literary works that express the passion of the heart and the wandering in love. Had it not been for the creators’ taste for this unique human experience, their products would not have been destined for excellence and leadership. In his new release, Let’s Philosophize explores the love life of his chosen characters, from Tolstoy to Tishkov, Picasso and Einstein to Iraqi artist Jawad Salim.
One of the paradoxes of the love stories in this book is that the emotional relationship may be a source of happiness and open a new page in one’s career and nurture the genius of creativity represented in multiple arts and literary genres. And may lead to stumbling in love to psychological crisis in the great creators, It also occurred in the life of the Dutch painter Van Gogh.
Freud says about the suffering of the owner of the painting (Starry Night) that he would have lived more if he had succeeded in love, He attributes the reason for its collapse to the failure to find female companionship.
Ali Hussein details this genius artist in the chapters of his book, In the introduction, he recalls a quote by the Indian thinker Nisar Kadhatta Maharaj (Life is love and love is life). Pointing out that this phrase has aroused his attention and from here he wanted to search for the secret of love, In the same context, he quoted the views of OFID, He sees love as the whole life, contrary to what Epicurus was convinced of. In his opinion, love is only an adornment of life and what the author quoted from the German philosopher “Heidegger”, who believed that nothing leads you to the heart of the world more than love, It reveals a broader vision of this subject that is not much different from the belief of mystics in the need to dedicate to love before reaching the truth.
In the first section of the book, the author accompanies you in tracing the life of the Russian novelist Tolstoy, who admits to having many relationships with women without any relationship lasting more than a few days. He was cautious in the matter of love and marriage until he got to know Sonia, The daughter of a German doctor who frequents their house and reads them parts of the stories, And then the author of War and Peace declares his feelings. And after his love is crowned with a sacred bond, He writes in his diary (Incredible luck of happiness), But it doesn’t go on like this and jealousy disturbs the serenity of love between the two. As for the representations of love in his books, Tolstoy was inspired by the story of his neighbor with his wife, whom he neglected for the sake of a German nanny, so the wife chose to commit suicide under the train tracks. In the second section, the recipient is in front of the story of Charles Dickens with women and his failure to experience his love for a theatrical actress who advises him to forget and search for a wife that suits him, as the writer mentions Dickens’ admiration for the novel (New Heloise) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Not to mention paying attention to his rise in the world of literature and the increase in his fame, The start was from the moment a copy of his novel was made by Catherine, the daughter of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper where he works as a delegate.
Another episode about the duality of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and the confessions of Sahib (existence and nothingness) about his psychological suffering due to his lack of handsomeness, until he was freed from this feeling even more. Sartre differentiates between love, mechanical lust and enslavement and tells his friend that freedom preceded love for him, and wished in his last dialogue to put the order in reverse, and for her part, Simone de Beauvoir included many of her views on love in the novel (The Intellectuals). Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera is a portrait of his parents’ love experience. Marquez recalls being deeply influenced by Shakespeare’s phrase “Only love with its mighty power can stand up to time” as his psychological crisis worsened by his emotional failures. But this did not prevent Van Gogh from continuing to create and draw inspiration from the image of the woman he loved in his paintings (Ursula), as Turgenev wrote his novel (First Love) when he was orphaned by actress Pauline, and Paul Éluard wrote his most beautiful poems inspired by his love for “Gala”, and his French compatriot (Aragon) did not see a future outside Elisa.