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    Aesthetics of anaesthetics: Western postmodern attitude and Japanese Wabi-Sabi
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-09-15) Yurt, Engin; Başarır, Sıla Burcu
    In Japanese aesthetics, there is a traditionally embraced concept named Wabi-sabi (侘寂) which cherishes -in a narrow sense- the beauty that springs from the imperfection or impermanence. At first sight, this understanding -when it is considered comparatively within traditional Western theories of aesthetics- does not find any concrete corresponding western element for itself (even though the theme of “the beauty in the flaw” is a wellknown idea in Western literature and philosophy), because of the dominant aesthetic values towards Greek ideals of perfection and symmetry’s beauty within modern Western art. But, especially with the negative approach towards the concept of symmetry in the beginning of modernism within architecture and positive opinions about the concept of Anaesthetics (or un-aesthetics) within postmodern understanding of art, there might be something in western aesthetical theories which can be read in a similarity with Wabi-sabi. Western aesthetical themes like “beauty in the asymmetry”, “aesthetic of the Anaesthetic one”, “aesthetic of decay”, “aesthetic of ruins” and “anaesthetically appealing” might have a possibility of a comparative reading with Wabi-sabi. Even though it is not explicitly expressed, some opinions in postmodern attitude might provide a philosophical ground for this comparative reading. With the help of some Japanese terms like Shibusa (渋さ), Kintsugi (金継ぎ), Mono no aware (物の哀れ), this paper aims to search and to explain resemblances, differences and interconnections (if there are any) between idea of wabi-sabi and some western postmodern theories of anaesthetics.
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    The leviathan becoming a cephalophore: Primogeniture and the transition from sovereignty to governmentality
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-09-15) Griffith, James
    For Foucault, Hobbes is important for the transition from sovereignty to governmentality, but he does not always go into great detail how. In “Society Must Be Defended”, Hobbes’s reactions against the political historicism of his time lead him to an ahistorical foundation to the state. In Security, Territory, Population, his contract is emblematic of the art of government still caught in the logic of sovereignty. Management techniques, one of which being inheritance laws like primogeniture, inducing changes in a population’s milieu so that its interest is properly directed allow the art of government to escape this logic. Hobbes supports primogeniture, but its historical position in the common law makes this support unexpected. This article examines the historical context of primogeniture and the reasoning for Hobbes’s support of it in light of Foucault’s claims about him in order to give more precision to those claims. The result is that primogeniture as a law of nature produces the family as an interested unit of the population. Yet this interest is itself historicized, so Hobbes’s attempt to de-historicize politics did not fully succeed.
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    Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of culture and the possibility of social change
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-09-15) Akgün, Recep
    This article critically analyzes Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas on the social change in the context of his sociology of culture. Around this analysis the study presents how Bourdieu places social change in his sociology of culture and shows his theoretical possibilities and limitations about the change within the social. Thus, it is claimed that Bourdieu’s sociology of culture inserts the agency into the cultural analysis to open a space for the change within the social through assigning an active role to the agents vis-a-vis objective social conditions and structures, however, his ideas on agency delimits the scope of change in the social. Correspondingly, the study sets forth the possibilities and limitations of theory of social change in Bourdieu’s sociology of culture critically by means of examining his general theoretical procedures and ideas on the social.
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    The state as a janus-faced structure: Anti-paternalism and pastoral power
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-09-15) Ünsalan, Fehmi
    The claim that “the good accompanies every political action” stands out as one of the basic claims of political philosophy. In this sense, every political action brings along the knowledge of the good, that is, the inclination towards the knowledge of the good life or the good society. It is possible to claim that there is a kind of a relationship directing the deeds of the individual as much as the validity of consideration of the government, in this context, the state as a way of domination in itself. In this study, starting from the relationship between paternal and pastoral powers, it will be attempted to show that the state has an invariable dual power structure. The relationship between the paternalist power technique with more state claims and the pastoral technique with less state claims will be tried to be laid on the evaluations of John Locke, Michel Foucault and Gerald Dworkin.