Assoc.Prof.Dr. Serkan Ertin
Undergrad Courses Spring 2021-2022
The courses I will be teaching this term

LOOKING AT PHILOSOPHY II
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DAY DIVISION TOPICS
HEGEL: Freedom and state(FeyzaNur+); Religion and Politics(Caner Ş+)
SCHOPENHAUER: World as representation; World as will(Esra A+)
KIERKEGAARD: psychology(existential and Christian); theology and faith
MARX: freedom (Zaur+); alienation
NIETZSCHE: Genealogy of morality; mass culture(Hamza+); übermensch(MelikeY+?); herd behaviour; nihilism(Ceren Ü+)
UTILITARIANISM: happiness(Zeynep S+); benefit
BENTHAM: gender and sexuality(HilalC+); animal rights
MILL: theory of liberty(Ece S+); women’s rights(Eylül D+); colonialism(Tuğrul+); slavery
PRAGMATISM: happiness; truth and benefit(Selin Ö+)
JAMES: theory of self; epistemology; philosophy of religion(Eminegül+)
DEWEY: epistemology(emirhan+*); education and teacher education(M.Visal+);
MOORE: ethics(cantürk+*); idealism and external world
RUSSELL: religion(Cansu A+), society(Yağmur Ö--), language(Atahan+*)
LOGICAL POSITIVISM: knowledge and phenomena; science and truth(MirayY+)
HUSSERL: knowledge and certainty(MustafaD+); sciences and phenomenology
WITTGENSTEIN: language and meaning; language and world(Burcu K+)
HEIDEGGER: dasein and time(UtkuDK+?)
SARTRE: being-in-itself(ÖzgeB--); being-for-itself; existentialism(Batuhan Y+)
A. CAMUS: absurdism(İsmail Ş+)
STRUCTURALISM: in linguistics(SemihK--); in literary theory&criticism
SAUSSURE:sign-signifier-signified; language and meaning
LEVI-STRAUSS: myths(GülseB+); anthropology(AlpS+)
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: Gender roles(Sena B+)
POSTSTRUCTURALISM: deconstruction(Vakkas); postmodernism(CengizhanR)
FOUCAULT: homosexuality(Tutku), madness(Aydan), prison-panopticon(Tarık K)
JUDITH BUTLER: performativity(Arzu A), precarity(Ertuğrul), drag queens(Tuğba), sexuality and gender(BuseA)
CIORAN: Cioran (Fatih A)
LACAN: Imaginary-Symbolic-Real(Mert Aygün); conscious-unconscious(IşılA), love(BetülÇ), desire(Esra Ş)
DERRIDA: text and meaning(YağmurDÖ); deconstruction(Alper T)
IRIGARAY: gender and sexuality(SümeyyeY), language
EVENING DIVISION TOPICS
HEGEL: Freedom and state; Religion and Politics
SCHOPENHAUER: World as representation; World as will
KIERKEGAARD: psychology(existential and Christian); theology and faith
MARX: freedom; alienation
NIETZSCHE: Genealogy of morality; mass culture; übermensch; herd behaviour; nihilism
UTILITARIANISM: happiness; benefit
BENTHAM: gender and sexuality; animal rights
MILL: theory of liberty; women’s rights; colonialism; slavery
PRAGMATISM: happiness; truth and benefit
JAMES: theory of self; epistemology; philosophy of religion
DEWEY: epistemology; education and teacher education;
MOORE: ethics; idealism and external world
RUSSELL: religion, society, language
LOGICAL POSITIVISM: knowledge and phenomena; science and truth
HUSSERL: knowledge and certainty; sciences and phenomenology
WITTGENSTEIN: language and meaning; language and world
HEIDEGGER: dasein; dasein and time
SARTRE: being-in-itself; being-for-itself; existentialism
STRUCTURALISM: in linguistics; in literary theory&criticism
SAUSSURE:sign-signifier-signified; language and meaning
LEVI-STRAUSS: myths; anthropology
POSTSTRUCTURALISM: binary oppositions and deconstruction; postmodernism
LACAN: Imaginary-Symbolic-Real; conscious-unconscious
DERRIDA: text and meaning; deconstruction
IRIGARAY: gender and sexuality, language

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM
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POSTMODERNIST NOVEL
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