Çetin Balanuye
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 has studies in the field of educational philosophy. He is a professor at Akdeniz University, Department of Philosophy. Academic Life. 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. He has been working as an academician since completing his PhD in Philosophy in 2006. His doctoral thesis was published by Lambert Academic Publishing in 2010. Balanuye, who has been working as a faculty member in the  Philosophy Department of Akdeniz University since 2007, received the title of associate professor in 2011 and professor in 2018. 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. Thought. Since 2000, Balanuye has been working to develop a two-way intellectual program that is compatible with each other but creates two separate paths in two fields, one of which can be considered as "flat philosophy" and the other "philosophy of education". Within the scope of the first of these  paths, 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 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? [Where Does Spinoza's Joy Come from?], a book published in 2017. 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. 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: 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.