2 Responses to ప్రేమ కూడా రాజకీయమేనా?

1. Nagaraju Pappu

   February 15, 2018 at 10:43 pm

   పద్మావతిగారి అనువాదం సరళంగా, సూటిగా ఉంది.
   As Geoff Dyer, famously wrote “when it comes to regret, everyone’s a winner”

   Firestone’s original used to be a hotly debated book twenty years ago, when marxist literary analysis was being questioned for some of its limitations.
   These questions are now posed and enquired in a much wider and broader philosophical, social and even economic contexts. I recommend the following:
   1. The Economization of Life by Michelle Murphy.
   Murphy is a feminist technoscience studies scholar. She explicitly states that her purpose is to provoke and not prove. Her charge is that the entire apparatus of economics and econometrics is a racist attempt to control the population of poor countries and rob women in those countries of their reproductive rights. In this sense, she goes beyond the well established “battle of the sexes” and male domination, and poses some larger questions – the individual’s sacrifices for the good of “state”.
   2. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar
   Benatar is a provocative philosopher – he asks questions that we normally never do. He argues that it is better not to be born at all, and raises questions about why “parenthood” is held so sacred in all cultures.
   Here is the editorial blurb from Amazon about this book: “Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions — and some people are plagued by them. Surprisingly, analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions about the meaning of life. When they have tackled the big questions, they have tended, like popular writers, to offer comforting, optimistic answers. The Human Predicament invites readers to take a clear-eyed and unfettered view of the human condition.
   3. Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum
   This book is a collection of 12 essays by eminent feminist writers, all of them have chosen not to have children. This collection makes a smart and passionate case for why parenthood is not the only path to a happy, productive life and takes our parent centric, kid fixated, baby bump patrolling culture to task in the process. In this book, that shadowy faction known as the childless by choice comes out into the light.

   I would really love to see this book translated into Telugu – it is time, we ask some tough questions.

   btw, ధీర సంస్కృత పుల్లింగ శబ్దం

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2. Ajit Kumar

   February 22, 2018 at 7:14 pm

   పిల్లల పెంపకం అనేది ఒక అణచివేత అనుకోవడం తప్పు. స్వేచ్చ, ప్రతిఫలం వంటి విషయాలలో నస్టపోయిన వారి బలహీనమైన ఆక్రందన అది. అలాగే ప్రేమ అనేది ఒక భావన. జీవితంలో ప్రేమ లేకుంటే నిస్సారం కాదు. ఎలాగంటే మనం చీకటిలో వుండాల్సినప్పుడు భయం అనే భావన కలుగుతుంది. వెలుతురు రాగానే ఆ భావన పోతుంది అలాగే.

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