In Dimitris Vardoulakis & Kiarina Kordela (eds.), _Spinoza’s Authority Volume II: Resistance and Power in The Political Treatises_. London, UK: pp. 45-66. 2018 Vardoulakis argues that the notion of law as developed in chapter 4 of Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise does not rely on a notion of legitimacy but rather on how authority justifies itself. To demonstrate this point, Vardoulakis analyzes closely the example of Adam and the Fall used by Spinoza in that chapter of the […]

_Medeniyet Art, IMU Art, Design and Architecture Faculty Journal,_ 3 (1):29-44. 2017 This study aims to grasp the two distinct artworks one is from the literary field: Penal Colony, written by F. Kafka and the other one is from painting: The Large Glass, designed by M. Duchamp. This text tries to unravel the similarities betwe- en these artworks in terms of two main significations around “The Officer” from Penal Colony and “The Bachelors” from The Large Glass. Because of their vital […]

In Robert Wicks (ed.), _The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer_. Oxford, UK: pp. 49-66. 2020 Schopenhauer is famously abusive toward his philosophical contemporary and rival, Friedrich William Joseph von Schelling. This chapter examines the motivations for Schopenhauer’s immoderate attitude and the substance behind the insults. It looks carefully at both the nature of the insults and substantive critical objections Schopenhauer had to Schelling’s philosophy, both to Schelling’s metaphysical […]

In Douglas Hedley (ed.), _The History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 1700–1900 CE_. London, UK: pp. 150-166. 2018 Schelling and Schopenhauer both operate in the German idealist tradition initiated by Kant, although both are critical of some of its developments. Schelling's interest in evil – which is at its most intense in his 1809 Freedom essay – stems from his belief that Kant's account of morality. In the Freedom essay Schelling links these theories with the […]

In Yitzhak Melamed (ed.), _Eternity: A History_. Oxford, UK: pp. 179-225. 2016 The story of eternity is not as simple as a secularization narrative implies. Instead it follows something like the trajectory of reversal in Kant’s practical proof for the existence of god. In that proof, god emerges not as an object of theoretical investigation, but as a postulate required by our practical engagement with the world; so, similarly, the eternal is not just secularized out of existence, but becomes […]