Inspera Book Club

Selected by Rümeysa, our coordinator at Inspera Art Academy, at this month’s Book Club meeting, we’ll be discussing Alain Badiou and Nicolas Truong’s *In Praise of Love* and Pablo Neruda’s *Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair*. As Badiou puts it: “Philosophy expects those who engage with it to be scholars, artists, activists, and lovers.” While Badiou calls us to step outside conventional assumptions, Neruda brings desire, longing, and heartbreak to life in verse. Between philosophy’s language—which compels us to think—and poetry’s form—which defies containment in words—we will discuss together how love is not merely something that “happens to us,” but rather a matter to be contemplated, interpreted, and even resisted.