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Husserl’Den Agamben’E Bi̇çi̇m Ve Di̇legelmeyeni̇n Gi̇zemi̇
Toplum ve kültür araştırmaları dergisi
, Dec 31, 2021
In his work titled The Unspeakable Girl: The Myth and Mystery of Kore (with Monica Ferrando), Ita...
more
In his work titled The Unspeakable Girl: The Myth and Mystery of Kore (with Monica Ferrando), Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben defines the mythological figure Kore, daughter of Demeter, as "the ideal figure for the supreme initiation and the completion of philosophy" that escapes logos and speech (2010). On the other hand, Edmund Husserl, while criticizing most of the Western philosophers or the canonical philosophy of metaphysics and ontology before his time, Edmund Husserl offers an alternative approach to human cognition (and philosophy) which is based upon seeing and perception, namely phenomenology. The aim of this paper is to present a reading of Agamben's figuration and interpretation of Kore (Persephone) through different moments of the history of philosophy, by respectively alluding to the ideas of Husserl, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida. Since Agamben's Kore is pure appearance that only shows itself while not being called within logos or named within language, it will be firstly explored through Husserl's phenomenology. Next, the paper will try to discuss the idea of unspeakability via reflections on language recalling the relevant works of Saussure and Derrida. Accordingly, Husserl's reflections on eidos, Saussure's conception of the sign and Derrida's différance will be revisited. Lastly Agamben's depiction of Kore as the unspeakable and its implications will be discussed.
Reconsidering The World Republic of Letters: A Qualunque Community of Literatures
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory
, Dec 17, 2021
In the preface to the English edition of The World Republic of Letters, Pascale Casanova focuses ...
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In the preface to the English edition of The World Republic of Letters, Pascale Casanova focuses on the existence of a literary world/universe, which maintains a relative autonomy from the world and its political disparities and restrictions. This suggested ideal of a literary space is an attempt to posit world literature as an alternative chronotope in which literary production can survive and multiply transnationally. My paper will offer a reconsideration of this global literary space, read via a philosophical perspective, shaped by the famous discussion of the common and community as conducted by Giorgio Agamben, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, among others. Within the above theoretical frame, my attempt will be to reread Casanova’s contribution to World Literature as a desired community of literature(s), formed by the coming together of qualunque singularities which co-exist and co-belong without “any representable condition of belonging” (Agamben). Furthermore, the idea of qualunque (whatever) will constitute the starting point for the ethico-political reconsideration and reconceptualisation of the global literary space offered by Casanova, not only without borders but also without hierarchies.
Intersextuality
The Spectral Other or the Self: Justice in Richard III
British and American Studies
, 2020
Shakespearean tragedies have featured villains who inspired in-depth criticism, especially when p...
more
Shakespearean tragedies have featured villains who inspired in-depth criticism, especially when paired with the themes of justice and revenge. King Richard III is one of the most famous cases in point. The present study will suggest a re-reading of the tragedy from an ethical perspective, with references to selected works of Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt. In this context, the villainy of Richard III will be reassessed , and his author's understanding of justice will be examined, in the light of the two different philosophical approaches; the focus will be placed on the exploration of Richard's relationship with the other(s) and with himself.
Learning to Live, Learning to Die: Writing as Mourning and / or Fraud in Peter Ackroyd’s The Lambs of London
British and American Studies
, May 30, 2022
In The School of the Dead (1994), Hélène Cixous investigates the kinship between writing and deat...
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In The School of the Dead (1994), Hélène Cixous investigates the kinship between writing and death by recalling Montaigne's famous perspective of philosophy, which identifies philosophizing with dying. This paper suggests a reading of Peter Ackroyd's Lambs of London in the light of Cixous's approach, juxtaposed with her "friend" (φίλος) Jacques Derrida's contributions on memory, mourning and ethics as "learning to live from the ghosts". Accordingly, the novel will be explored as a literary topos of Mnemosyne, through which the author revives the admiration and longing for Shakespeare, by resurrecting the ghosts of William Ireland, Mary and Charles Lamb.
Hi̇ç Yerden Adalet: Thomas Nagel’İn Ve John Rawls’Un Düşüncesi̇nde Eti̇k-Si̇yasal Nesnelli̇k
Toplum ve kültür araştırmaları dergisi
, Jun 29, 2023
The question regarding the relationship between ethics and politics has always occupied the minds...
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The question regarding the relationship between ethics and politics has always occupied the minds of philosophers and political theorists. Thomas Nagel is one philosopher among others who clearly draws a close link between the ethical and the political. Accordingly, Nagel's inquiry on the issues of objectivity and subjectivity is providing the readers not only with ethical but also political insights regarding the matter. On the other hand, John Rawls's ideas of an "original position" and a "veil of ignorance" in their relation to his understanding of political justice, similarly, interrogate the possibility of an alternative perspective for an objective standpoint that recognizes and encompasses individuality while offering a model for a political community which is founded upon impartial principles. Although Rawls's discussion is mainly contractual and strictly political, certain aspects of his works on political justice and liberalism might be reconsidered in an investigation which also engages with issues in morality and ethics. Therefore, the present study will attempt at reading Nagel's discussion of objectivity and impartiality from an ethico-political standpoint which juxtaposes 'the view from nowhere' with Rawlsian "veil of ignorance". For this, relevant arguments of both philosophers will be explored in a comparative manner while highlighting potential parallelisms between the two.
The Spectre and the Pin: Trompe-l’oeil and Hermeneutic Mourning in Hamnet
by
Hatice Karaman
and
Ayşegül Ernur
Litera:dil,edebiyat ve kültür araştırmaları dergisi
, Jun 13, 2023
The tragic death of Hamnet, son of William Shakespeare, is commonly linked to Hamlet, Prince of D...
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The tragic death of Hamnet, son of William Shakespeare, is commonly linked to Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, which is possibly the ghostliest work of tragedy ever penned. A few years after the tragic event, the tragedy was written, and thus it sparked a number of psychoanalytical interpretations highlighting its Oedipal undertones in regard to Shakespeare's loss. In her 2020 novel Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell centres on Agnes Hathaway and her children in Stratford-upon-Avon by deliberately distancing the Bard as far as possible from the story. The novel revolves around the untimely death of young Hamnet, leaving his mother and family, yet especially his twin sister Judith, in a state of excruciating sorrow and mourning. By bracketing grief and mourning using Jacques Derrida's observations on the work of mourning, this study will first approach the narrative of O'Farrell in a phenomenological way. While in Hamnet, the son is referred to as "the pin" keeping the entire Shakespeare family together, in the tragedy, Hamlet the son represents complete disarray. Therefore, the second goal of this paper is to propose an interpretation of the play as a "hermeneutic mourning" piece through a reading of "trompe-l'oeil" of the memory between Hamlet and Hamnet.
Turkish Gothic, Universal Angst: The Impossibility of Non-Existence in Dracula(s
Folklor/Edebiyat
, 2023
The source of horror is mostly correlated with the horror of the final encounter, death. As the f...
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The source of horror is mostly correlated with the horror of the final encounter, death. As the form of ceasing to exist, death has troubled humankind since the very beginning of history. Therefore, the question of death is immediately associated with “to be or not to be”, the most gothic of all questions. Being and Non-being, with the abyss of death tormenting human for ages, hold a prominent space as the uncanniest aspect of human condition, best exemplified by Gothic writings. Those who lack a proper death and who cannot cease to exist (i.e. the vampires) have been the staple tropes of Gothic fiction, globally. By converting the Heideggerian “angst”, Emmanuel Levinas suggests that horror is the fear of not being able to escape from Being. The present study focuses on Ali Rıza Seyfioğlu’s Kazıklı Voyvoda, which in 2017 saw its English translation as Dracula in Istanbul. The first part discusses the representations of evil and good in relation with the Heideggerian uncanny; instrumental for this is an overview of Levinas’s suggestions about horror, death, and existence. The second part emphasizes the ethico-ontological reflections in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in comparison with the adapted Turkish novel. This comparison, thus, argues for the global human conundrum regarding the question of death and non-being as the most universal cause of horror, terror, and anxiety.
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Seyfioğlu's adaptation deepens the connection between Vlad the Impaler's historical legacy and Stoker's fictional character, reinforcing cultural anxieties.
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The Spectre and the Pin: Trompe-l’oeil and Hermeneutic Mourning in Hamnet
by
Ayşegül Ernur
and
Hatice Karaman
Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies / Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
The tragic death of Hamnet, son of William Shakespeare, is commonly linked to Hamlet, Prince of D...
more
The tragic death of Hamnet, son of William Shakespeare, is commonly linked to Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, which is possibly the ghostliest work of tragedy ever penned. A few years after the tragic event, the tragedy was written, and thus it sparked a number of psychoanalytical interpretations highlighting its Oedipal undertones in regard to Shakespeare's loss. In her 2020 novel Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell centres on Agnes Hathaway and her children in Stratford-upon-Avon by deliberately distancing the Bard as far as possible from the story. The novel revolves around the untimely death of young Hamnet, leaving his mother and family, yet especially his twin sister Judith, in a state of excruciating sorrow and mourning. By bracketing grief and mourning using Jacques Derrida's observations on the work of mourning, this study will first approach the narrative of O'Farrell in a phenomenological way. While in Hamnet, the son is referred to as "the pin" keeping the entire Shakespeare family together, in the tragedy, Hamlet the son represents complete disarray. Therefore, the second goal of this paper is to propose an interpretation of the play as a "hermeneutic mourning" piece through a reading of "trompe-l'oeil" of the memory between Hamlet and Hamnet.
The Spectre and the Pin: Trompe-l'oeil and Hermeneutic Mourning in Hamnet
by
Hatice Karaman
and
Ayşegül Ernur
The Spectre and the Pin: Trompe-l’oeil and Hermeneutic Mourning in Hamnet
, 2023
The tragic death of Hamnet, son of William Shakespeare, is commonly linked to Hamlet, Prince of D...
more
The tragic death of Hamnet, son of William Shakespeare, is commonly linked to Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, which is possibly the ghostliest work of tragedy ever penned. A few years after the tragic event, the tragedy was written, and thus it sparked a number of psychoanalytical interpretations highlighting its Oedipal undertones in regard to Shakespeare's loss. In her 2020 novel Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell centres on Agnes Hathaway and her children in Stratford-upon-Avon by deliberately distancing the Bard as far as possible from the story. The novel revolves around the untimely death of young Hamnet, leaving his mother and family, yet especially his twin sister Judith, in a state of excruciating sorrow and mourning. By bracketing grief and mourning using Jacques Derrida's observations on the work of mourning, this study will first approach the narrative of O'Farrell in a phenomenological way. While in Hamnet, the son is referred to as "the pin" keeping the entire Shakespeare family together, in the tragedy, Hamlet the son represents complete disarray. Therefore, the second goal of this paper is to propose an interpretation of the play as a "hermeneutic mourning" piece through a reading of "trompe-l'oeil" of the memory between Hamlet and Hamnet.
LEARNING TO LIVE, LEARNING TO DIE: WRITING AS MOURNING AND/OR FRAUD IN PETER ACKROYD'S THE LAMBS OF LONDON
B.A.S./British and American Studies Journal, vol. XXVIII
, 2022
In The School of the Dead (1994), Hélène Cixous investigates the kinship between writing and deat...
more
In The School of the Dead (1994), Hélène Cixous investigates the kinship between writing and death by recalling Montaigne's famous perspective of philosophy, which identifies philosophizing with dying. This paper suggests a reading of Peter Ackroyd's Lambs of London in the light of Cixous's approach, juxtaposed with her "friend" (φίλος) Jacques Derrida's contributions on memory, mourning and ethics as "learning to live from the ghosts". Accordingly, the novel will be explored as a literary topos of Mnemosyne, through which the author revives the admiration and longing for Shakespeare, by resurrecting the ghosts of William Ireland, Mary and Charles Lamb.
Husserl’Den Agamben’E Bi̇çi̇m Ve Di̇legelmeyeni̇n Gi̇zemi̇
Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
, 2021
In his work titled The Unspeakable Girl: The Myth and Mystery of Kore (with Monica Ferrando), Ita...
more
In his work titled The Unspeakable Girl: The Myth and Mystery of Kore (with Monica Ferrando), Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben defines the mythological figure Kore, daughter of Demeter, as "the ideal figure for the supreme initiation and the completion of philosophy" that escapes logos and speech (2010). On the other hand, Edmund Husserl, while criticizing most of the Western philosophers or the canonical philosophy of metaphysics and ontology before his time, Edmund Husserl offers an alternative approach to human cognition (and philosophy) which is based upon seeing and perception, namely phenomenology. The aim of this paper is to present a reading of Agamben's figuration and interpretation of Kore (Persephone) through different moments of the history of philosophy, by respectively alluding to the ideas of Husserl, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida. Since Agamben's Kore is pure appearance that only shows itself while not being called within logos or named within language, it will be firstly explored through Husserl's phenomenology. Next, the paper will try to discuss the idea of unspeakability via reflections on language recalling the relevant works of Saussure and Derrida. Accordingly, Husserl's reflections on eidos, Saussure's conception of the sign and Derrida's différance will be revisited. Lastly Agamben's depiction of Kore as the unspeakable and its implications will be discussed.
The Mother, Who Is Not One: Reflections Of Motherhood In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, The Tempest, And The Taming Of The Shrew
Gender Studies
, 2014
The lack of proper motherhood in Shakespeare's plays has been a point of attraction for many ...
more
The lack of proper motherhood in Shakespeare's plays has been a point of attraction for many feminist critics actively engaged in emphasizing the patriarchal aspect of Shakespeare's plays. This paper aims to analyze motherhood and the lack of mother/mother-figure in
Intersextuality
Women Philosophers on Autonomy
Reconsidering The World Republic of Letters: A Qualunque Community of Literatures
Hatice Karaman Reconsidering The World Republic of Letters: A Qualunque Community of Literatures
, 2021
In the preface to the English edition of The World Republic of Letters, Pascale Casanova focuses ...
more
In the preface to the English edition of The World Republic of Letters, Pascale Casanova focuses on the existence of a literary world/universe, which maintains a relative autonomy from the world and its political disparities and restrictions. This suggested ideal of a literary space is an attempt to posit world literature as an alternative chronotope in which literary production can survive and multiply transnationally. My paper will offer a reconsideration of this global literary space, read via a philosophical perspective, shaped by the famous discussion of the common and community as conducted by Giorgio Agamben, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, among others. Within the above theoretical frame, my attempt will be to reread Casanova's contribution to World Literature as a desired community of literature(s), formed by the coming together of qualunque singularities which coexist and co-belong without "any representable condition of belonging" (Agamben). Furthermore, the idea of qualunque (whatever) will constitute the starting point for the ethico-political reconsideration and reconceptualisation of the global literary space offered by Casanova, not only without borders but also without hierarchies.
THE SPECTRAL OTHER OR THE SELF: JUSTICE IN RICHARD III
B.A.S./ British and American Studies, vol. XXVI, 2020 pp. 153 - 159.
, 2020
Shakespearean tragedies have featured villains who inspired in-depth criticism, especially when p...
more
Shakespearean tragedies have featured villains who inspired in-depth criticism, especially when paired with the themes of justice and revenge. King Richard III is one of the most famous cases in point. The present study will suggest a re-reading of the tragedy from an ethical perspective, with references to selected works of Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt. In this context, the villainy of Richard III will be reassessed , and his author's understanding of justice will be examined, in the light of the two different philosophical approaches; the focus will be placed on the exploration of Richard's relationship with the other(s) and with himself.
Intersextuality:Derrida and Cixous
Women Philosophers on Autonomy
, 2018
THE MOTHER, WHO IS NOT ONE: REFLECTIONS OF MOTHERHOOD IN SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET, THE TEMPEST, AND THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
The lack of proper motherhood in Shakespeare’s plays has been a point of attraction for many femi...
more
The lack of proper motherhood in Shakespeare’s plays has been a point of attraction for many feminist critics actively engaged in emphasizing the patriarchal aspect of Shakespeare’s plays. This paper aims to analyze motherhood and the lack of mother/mother-figure in The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet and The
Taming of the Shrew through Luce Irigaray’s theory of gender and the work of other feminist critics. The issues of gender, father-daughter relations and the reflections of the absent mothers will be discussed. Male/Female Subjectivity will also be questioned, in view of Irigaray’s conceptualization of gender by relating it
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