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2932Fanon's Frame of Violence: Undoing the Instrumental/Non-Instrumental BinaryInterventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 23 (8): 1106-1123. 2021.The scholarship on Frantz Fanon’s theorization of violence is crowded with interpretations that follow the Arendtian paradigm of violence. These interpretations often discuss whether violence is instrumental or non-instrumental in Fanon’s work. This reading, I believe, is the result of approaching Fanon through Hannah Arendt’s framing of violence, i.e. through a binary paradigm of instrumental versus non-instrumental violence. Even some Fanon scholars who question Arendt’s reading of Fanon, do s…Read more
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813Epistemic Injustice from Afar: Rethinking the Denial of Armenian GenocideSocial Epistemology 35 (2). 2021.Genocide denialism is an understudied topic in the epistemic injustice scholarship; so are epistemic relations outside of the Euro-American context. This article proposes to bring the literature into contact with an underexplored topic in a ‘distant’ setting: Turkey. Here, I explore the ethical and epistemological implications of the Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide as a pervasive and systematic epistemic harm. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, I argue that a philosophical explorati…Read more
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502Aristotle’s Akrasia: The Role of Potential Knowledge and Practical SyllogismProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 2 (2): 233-238. 2018.In Nicomachean Ethics VII Aristotle describes akrasia as a disposition. Taking into account that it is a disposition, I argue that akrasia cannot be understood on an epistemological basis alone, i.e., it is not merely a problem of knowledge that the akratic person acts the ways he does, but rather one is akratic due to a certain kind of habituation, where the person is not able to activate the potential knowledge s/he possesses. To stress this point, I focus on the gap between potential knowledg…Read more
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349Evil's Inscrutability in Arendt and LevinasScience Et Esprit 70 (3): 341-362. 2018.Since 2001, Continental philosophical studies of evil suggest that we are forced to rethink the category of evil as we face acts of terrorism on a global scale. In light of this suggestion, this article traces the idea of the “inscrutability of evil” as a common lens through which we associate the category of evil with the phenomena we identify as evil. This idea finds its first modern formulation in Kant’s theory of radical evil. I argue that Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas follow Kant in id…Read more
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303Decentering Europe in the Thinking of EvilPhilosophy World Democracy. 2021.This essay suggests that Continental Studies of Evil need a more global approach in thinking about political evils of today. Highlighting the need for a more comparative and global perspective, I explore two proposals: first, the in-between space of the geographical binaries of East/West and Global South/Global North cultivates many political evils. Second, taking issue with the conviction in Continental philosophy that the Holocaust caused a rupture in the thinking of evil, I argue for the cont…Read more
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301The Power of Concepts under Authoritarianism: The Life of Arendt’s Banality of Evil in TurkeyAmerican Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Blog. 2021.The racist killing of Georg Floyd in the Summer of 2020 created waves of protests not only in the U.S. but all over the globe. In Turkey, my home country, there were also street demonstrations that demanded justice for Floyd, but “Twitter activism” was more popular. Turkish-speaking-twitter became a hotbed for condemnations. Amidst an array of tweets condemning Floyd’s racist killing, one stood out and made it to the headlines of alternative media outlets. A former official of the authoritarian …Read more
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254The Power of Concepts under Authoritarianism: The Life of Arendt’s Banality of Evil in TurkeyAPA Public Philosophy Blog. 2021.The racist killing of Georg Floyd in the Summer of 2020 created waves of protests not only in the U.S. but all over the globe. In Turkey, my home country, there were also street demonstrations that demanded justice for Floyd, but “Twitter activism” was more popular. Turkish-speaking-twitter became a hotbed for condemnations. Amidst an array of tweets condemning Floyd’s racist killing, one stood out and made it to the headlines of alternative media outlets. A former official of the authoritarian …Read more
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Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Bedross Der Matossian, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023) (review)Holocaust and Genocide Studies. forthcoming.
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