Çetin Balanuye
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| Born | August 16, 1970 |
| 🏫 Education | Middle East Technical University (BS), University of London (MA), Middle East Technical University (MS), Middle East Technical University (PhD) |
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Çetin Balanuye (born 16 August 1970) is a Turkish continental European philosopher and academic.
His main field of study is the idea of immanence in philosophy, immanence in the philosophies of Spinoza, Nietzsche and Deleuze and its ethical-political consequences. He is a professor at Akdeniz University, Department of Philosophy.[1][2]
Academic Life[edit]
Balanuye, who completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Educational Sciences, Psychological Counseling at the Middle East Technical University, received his first master's degree from the same university in the field of sociology of education. After taking all doctorate courses in the field of curriculum development in the Department of Educational Sciences in 1999-2000, he went to the University of London for a second master's degree with a full scholarship from the European Union. After receiving his second master's degree in Philosophy of Education there, he returned to Middle East Technical University for his doctorate.[3] Balanuye carried out the conceptual design processes of Turkey's first and only philosophy auditorium, with an area of 600 square meters, opened in Antalya by Bahcesehir College in 2017.[4][5]
Thought[edit]
He has many academic and popular published works focusing on a minor tradition that developed with Spinoza - Nietzsche - Deleuze, especially within the framework of the idea of immanence. Published in 2012, Spinoza: Bir Hakikat İfadesi[6] is the first Turkish copyrighted work in which Spinoza's three main works are explained together systematically.
If Balanuye is known to a wide readership, it's largely because Spinoza'nın Sevinci Nereden Geliyor?[7] [Where Does Spinoza's Joy Come from?], a book published in 2017.[8] Adhering strictly to Spinoza's teaching but enriched with creative prose pieces selected from everyday life, the book soon went through numerous editions and contributed to the adoption of Spinoza's teaching by outside readers as well as philosophers in Turkey. The book argues that as or more than the fleeting manifestations of the concept of joy, it is also possible for joy to turn into an established disposition, and that there is an inseparable relationship between such joy and the power to exist. We have certain assumptions that block this possibility, and these assumptions are deeply rooted, hidden and decisive. These assumptions (transcendence, free will, and teleology), each based largely on our illusions, have not only been weakened by Spinoza, but have shown that these assumptions can be abandoned, at least to some extent. And, when this is achieved the highly liberating ethical and political implications of a new notion of "power" will possibly follow.[9]
Balanuye published the first book of the Naturans series, which he planned as a trilogy, in 2020 with the name Naturans I: Towards a New Ontology. In this book, it is said that the aim is to organize a new idea of ontology, known as the ontology of power, which satisfies the following five conditions, all in harmony with Spinozism:[10]
- Tenet 1: Without reducing ontology to epistemology, justification of ontology as the quest for absolute possibility of accompanying reality for all existents, and justification of epistemology as the quest for evolutionary-adaptive means developed by man, as an existent among others, in order to “bear” reality.
- Tenet 2: Comprehension of “reality,” referred in Tenet 1, as “the whole of that which exists”, including but not limited to man.
- Tenet 3: To think the whole of that which exists as the equal inhabitants/constituents of “one” and “single” plane of immanence; not to associate “existence” of the existent with hierarchy on any normative grounds (axiological, theological or teleological).
- Tenet 4: To refrain from freezing the constituents of reality by putting them to a humanly categoric distinction; instead, to defend substantive reality of “expression of power” which connects all existents in equal manner.
- Tenet 5: To prefer an absolute monism that does not draw on any kind of philosophical dualism.
Limited with the five foregoing tenets, Power Ontology briefly intends to be a realist, monist, non-anthropocentric, immanentist and flat ontological program.
In the introduction to the book, information is given that the second book will be Naturans II: The New Ethics and Politics, and the third book will be Naturans III: The New Everyday Life.
Balanuye, along with many other contemporary philosophers, issued a statement against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.[11]
Books[edit]
- Naturans I: Yeni Bir Ontolojiye Doğru, Ayrıntı Yayınları, Ağustos 2020
- Naturans II: Yeni Etik Politik, Ayrıntı Yayınları, Haziran 2022
- Spinoza'nın Sevinci Nereden Geliyor? Reddedilemiyecek Bir Felsefi Teklif, Ayrıntı Yayınları, Ocak 2017
- Spinoza: Bir hakikat ifadesi, Say Yayınları, 2012
References[edit]
- ↑ "Prof. Dr. Çetin BALANUYE - BAUSEM". bausem.bau.edu.tr (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "Prof. ÇETİN BALANUYE | AVESİS". avesis.akdeniz.edu.tr. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "BALANUYE.NET » ÖZGEÇMİŞ". 2021-04-27. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Antalya Türkiye'nin İlk Felsefe Oditoryumu Antalya'da Açıldı". Haberler (in Türkçe). 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "BAHÇEŞEHİR KOLEJİ BÜNYESİNDE TÜRKİYE'NİN İLK "FELSEFE ODİTORYUMU" AÇILDI". www.bahcesehir.k12.tr. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "Spinoza ile karşılaşmalar ya da düşünce dünyamızın Spinoza ile imtihanı". T24 (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-04-18.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Spinoza'nın yeniden keşfi!". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ Şimşek, Ali (2020-11-04). "Çetin Balanuye ile Spinoza üzerine | Ek Dergi" (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "Spinoza'nın sevinci". ilerihaber.org. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ Duvar, Gazete (2020-06-10). "'Sil baştan düşünmemiz gerekiyor'". Gazete Duvar (in Türkçe). Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "Philosophers for Ukraine". Philosophers for Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
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