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Empowering Sadness: Spinoza on Grief, Love, and LossBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy. 2026.While often overlooked, loss and grief play a fundamental role in Spinoza’s practical philosophy. In this paper, I offer the first comprehensive reconstruction of Spinoza’s account of loss and grief, focusing on the Latin term desiderium and the Dutch term beklag. Three main theses are advanced. First, Spinoza regards loss not just as one affection among many but as the fundamental event underlying all sad passions, distinguishing between two determinations of desire: cupiditas and desiderium. S…Read more
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203Spinoza - Machiavelli Karşılaşmasını 21. Yüzyıl için Yeniden düşünmek: Yasa, Yönetim ve Çatışma Sarmalında ÖzgürlükDoğu Batı 29 (115): 33-54. 2026.Makalenin akışı şu şekilde olacak: ilk bölümde siyasi düzenin insanın doğal halinin bir parçası olduğu düşüncesine odaklanacak, siyasal iktidar ve onu mümkün kılan sosyal kurumların ontolojik olarak insanları belli bir şekilde davranmaya ve düşünmeye teşvik eden ilişkilerden başka bir şey olmadığını göstereceğim. doğallık fikrini merkeze alırken Spinoza’nın kendini Hobbes’un toplum sözleşmeci açıklamasından uzaklaştırtırken Machiavelli’den nasıl etkilendiğini göstereceğim. Bunu takip eden kısımd…Read more
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417Keder Kullanışlı Mıdır? Spinoza’da Duyguların Doğası ve İyi Yaşamla İlişkileri Üzerine İki DüzeltmeDoğu Batı 28 (114): 139-166. 2025.Bu makalede temelde iki şey yapmayı amaçlıyorum. Öncelikle Spinoza’nın duygu felsefesinin temelinde yatan, bu alandaki ikincil literatürde şu âna kadar ya gözden kaçırılmış ya da yeterince vurgulanmamış bir dizi kavramsal ayrımı göz önüne seriyorum. Amsterdamlının duygu teorisi ve etiğinde sistematik bir rol oynamalarına rağmen göz ardı edildiğini veya yeterince vurgulanmadığını savunduğum ayrımlar eyleme gücü (potentia agendi) ve etkileme gücü (potentia operandi) ile arzu (cupiditas) ve v…Read more
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785Precarious Necessity in a Contingent World: Time, Thought, and Necessity in DeleuzeDeleuze and Guattari Studies. forthcoming.This article discusses the status of necessity in an ontology that acknowledges only contingent events and objects, focusing particularly on the relationship between thought and necessity in an ontological framework where thought is seen as a contingent occurrence with a contingent structure. To this end, I closely analyse Deleuze’s criticisms of the Kantian transcendental project and his reworking of the Kantian notion of time and discuss Michael Ardoline's recent work on the relationship betwe…Read more
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1729Was Spinoza a Deleuzian? Rethinking the Politics of Emotions and AffectsTheory, Culture and Society 42 (3): 95-114. 2025.A salient tradition in contemporary affect theory heavily relies on distinguishing between emotions and affects. The former refers to structured categories of socially coded affective states, while the latter denotes the pre-social libidinal flow underlying emotions. This distinction is commonly attributed to Spinoza and is thought to have been further developed by Deleuze. In this article, I argue that this overall historical picture is misleading and inaccurate. Deleuze radically transforms Sp…Read more
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585Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning: Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss by Kathleen Marie Higgins (Review) (review)Review of Metaphysics 78 (2): 354-356. 2024.
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2605Thrown into the World, Attached to Love: On the Forms of World-Sharing and Mourning in HeideggerHuman Studies 47 (3). 2024.How can we understand the phenomena of loss and mourning in the Heideggerian framework? There is no established interpretation of Heidegger that gives an elaborate account of the phenomena of loss and mourning, let alone gauges its importance for our understanding and assessment of authentic existence in Heidegger. This paper attempts to do both. First, I give a detailed exposition of Heidegger’s analysis of the phenomena of mourning and loss and show that Heidegger’s analysis of mourning in his…Read more
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1047A Critical Assessment of Spinoza’s Theory of Affect: Affects, Beliefs, and Human FreedomBeytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 251-272. 2018.Affects are intentional structures of beliefs and desires. Many philosophers have plausibly argued that Spinoza’s theory of ideas is a kind of theory of belief. Yet this claim has rarely been taken into account when it comes to Spinoza’s theory of affects, which is actually a part of his theory of ideas. This paper shows that if this point is taken seriously when regarding Spinoza’s theory of affects we reach a significant conclusion that Spinoza’s theory of affects presented in the third and fo…Read more
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