Arendt, Truth and Politics
Seyla Benhabib, born in Istanbul, Turkey, is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics from 2002 to 2008. She was the President of the… Continue Reading
Karl Ekeman is a PhD student of rhetoric at Uppsala University. There, he studies ideological and philosophical texts presented as central within the European New Right – a broad and loosely organized “meta-political” movement that seeks to change the conditions… Continue Reading
Ayşen Candaş is an associate professor of political science at Bogazici University in Istanbul. Candas specializes in the history of political thought, theories of justice, theories of democracy, constitutionalism, social policy, pluralism, women’s rights, minority rights, comparative study of Muslim-majority… Continue Reading
Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of political theory at Boğazici University. She obtained her Ph. D. at the University of Paris VII in 1999. Her work focuses on collective agency, ethics, and public space. She has carried out extensive research on… Continue Reading
Required books Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2016. Butler, Judith. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Harvard University Press, 2015. El-Ariss, Tarek. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandal: Arab Culture in the Digital Age.… Continue Reading
Martin Saar is professor of social philosophy at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (since fall 2017). He has taught in Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin and Leipzig. His areas of specialization and teaching are contemporary political and social philosophy and the… Continue Reading