General information

The listed details of ongoing dissertations and completed or in-progress Master's and Bachelor's theses that I have supervised as first and temporary supervisor are intended to indicate that topics from all periods in the fields of cultural philosophy, comparative history of ideas, practical philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language and natural philosophy, aesthetics, interculturality or transdisciplinary approaches are welcome and possible. The first supervisions in particular have emerged from the broad spectrum of my teaching and research that I have realised over the past 30 years in Marburg, Istanbul and Oldenburg. The regular "colloquia for theses" are also suitable for finding topics, presenting and discussing planned research projects.

Dissertations

• Attitude and Reason - The History of Ideas of the Concept of the Heart from Pascal to Rousseau to Schiller, Hegel and Marx (ongoing).
• On the topicality of the Platonic idea in essence and effect (ongoing).
• Vico's philosophical reorientation: Did Vico need Descartes? (ongoing).

Master: First report

• Hegel's idealism as allegorical materialism. Materialist presuppositions as a solution to the aporetic character of absolute idealism, 2025.
• Freedom versus 'Instrumental Reason' in Hegel's Philosophy of History, 2025.
• Herbert Marcuse's premises on drive structure and society (1955), 2024.
• Investigation of the role of the individual in dynamic society in Agnes Heller, 2024.
• Paradigms of violence in the early writings Political Romanticism (1919) by Carl Schmitt and On the Critique of Violence (1921) by Walter Benjamin, 2024.
• Antonio Labriola's Critical Communism and Walter Benjamin's Theory of the Monad, 2024.
• On Love and the Heart in Immanuel Kant's and Ludwig Feuerbach's Philosophy of Religion and their Anthropological-Ethical Consequences, 2023.
• Between Anthropology and Atheism: A Comparative Analysis of Feuerbach's and Marx's Approaches Critical of Religion, 2023.
• Herbert Marcuse: The understanding of art and its significance for politics and society, 2022.
• Films in philosophical comparison based on Siegfried Kracauer's writings, 2022.
• The Role of Reason in the Thought of William of Ockham and Philipp Melanchthon, 2021.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as natural philosophers and critics of the slavery question, 2021.
• Organ donation issue - Can the expression of the idea of freedom of suicide also apply here? An ethical discussion with didactic considerations for teaching the subject of values and norms. 2021.
• The narrative structure of history - Discussion of the principle of poetic characters in Giambattista Vico, 2020.
• Schiller's ode "An die Freude" (1786) and Beethoven's "9th Symphony" (1824), 2020.
• "On the Duty of Disobedience to the State" - David Henry Thoreau's Philosophical Explication from the Perspective of Herbert Marcuse and the Fridays for Future Movement, 2020.
• Reason and unreason as a fundamental conflict in Pascal, Nietzsche and Camus, 2020.
• Islam and Europe: Between Tradition and Modernity with Consideration of the Public Space in Hannah Arendt, 2019.
• On 'Jargon' in the Philosophy of Karl Jaspers. A Critique of Theodor W. Adorno's "Jargon of Actuality", 2017.
• The role of women in Islam and in Lower Saxon school didactics (lower secondary level). Textbook analysis based on the Koran and Hegel's philosophy of religion, 2017.
• The Representation of Modern Men and their Absurd Manifestations in Samuel Beckett's "The Trilogy" (1951) and Franz Kafka's "The Trial" (1925). English Dept, Yeditepe University, Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2013.
• Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955). A Parody of Mimesis of the psychologised self-reflexive Civilization. English Dept, Yeditepe University, Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2010.
• Travelling and Writing as Metaphors towards Self-Realisation in the Exile Context: Jamal Mahjoub, "Travelling with Djinns" (2003) and Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul "Mimic Men" (1967). English Dept, Yeditepe University, Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005.
• Totalitarianism in Literature: Critical Approaches to Franz Kafka, "The Metamorphosis" (1912), Aldous Huxley "Brave New World" (1932) and George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949). English Dept, Yeditepe University, Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2004.

Master: Second Opinion

• Religion, Violence and the Theodicy Problem in Navid Kermani: The Voice of a Hybrid Intellectual in the German Migration Society (2025).
• Aesthetic transformation of the foreign experience through art using the example of Turkish guest workers in West Germany, 2025.
• Reasons for believing in conspiracy myths. A philosophical investigation based on Spinoza and Freud, 2024.
• Interference feminism - Agenda of a materialist-feminist eco-activism, 2024.
• On the income theory of John Locke, 2021.
• Human Enhancement - An ethical consideration of the effects of our performance-orientated society, 2020.
• Polylogue in the classroom - On the possible contribution of philosophy lessons to the understanding of cultures, 2015.

Bachelor: First report

• Colours of the Soul: Van Gogh in the field of tension between art and philosophy, ongoing.
• The infinite approximation of being to ought: To what extent is antagonism a component of Immanuel Kant's philosophy of history and the origin of Karl Marx's dialectical materialism, 2024.
• Preconditions and consequences in the history of ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson's text "Nature" (1836), 2024.
• Robert Pfaller's Picture of Epicurus: How does Pfaller integrate Epicurus' teachings? 2023.
• The Concept of Figura in Erich Auerbach: Structure and Specificity of Dante's Imitation in the Light of Hegel's Epic Theory, 2023
• The Influence of a Possession-Oriented Economy on the Moral Idea in Ancient Rome: A Comparative Study of the "Epistulae morales ad Lucilium" and the "Satyrica", 2023.
• Do we need ethics to do justice to the climate-damaging consequences of technological progress? An exposition of the ethics of responsibility according to Hans Jonas, 2023.
• Class consciousness as a bond and possibility of conscious-historical action in Georg Lukács and Theodor W. Adorno, 2023.
• The principle of responsibility in Hans Jonas as an examination of Max Weber's, Immanuel Kant's and Ernst Bloch's practical philosophy, 2022.
• The Relationship between Man and Nature in the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, 2022.
• The Concept of Ataraxia and Metanoia in Epicurus and Seneca: Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 2021.
• On the usefulness of religion for morality - On evil in man in Immanuel Kant's "Religion within mere reason", 2021.
• Function of Aesthetics - A Hermeneutic Methodology on Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's "Seelenfrieden" (1949) as a Dialectical Element of Education, 2021.
• Resistant thinking and writing processes in Ahmet Altan's essay "I will not see the world again" (2018) under censorship conditions. 2021.
• "Sturm" and "Ausweg": The 'Report for an Academy' (1917) in Walter Benjamin's exegesis of Franz Kafka. 2020.
• Can the concept of nature according to Kant serve to justify the preservation and protection of our environment? 2020.
• On the necessity of an unconditional basic income according to Epicurus and Erich Fromm, 2019.
• The Condition of Revolt in Albert Camus and the Myth of Humanism and Justice, 2019.
• John Newton's Overcoming the Habitus. Implications of love, hope and gratitude for the conception and constitution of a new lifestyle, illustrated by Newton's "The progressive work of grace", 2019 (expert opinion in the subject of sociology).
• "Sapere aude" - Enlightenment in Kant and Seneca. The idea of enlightenment and slave liberation, 2019.
• The image of man as a vehicle of social change - Antonio Gramsci and Herbert Marcuse in comparison, 2018.
• Inflicting suffering and killing animals? Animal ethics and cultural philosophical perspectives, 2017.
• Cynicism - Historical anachronism or a timeless and meaningful model of life? 2016.

Bachelor: Second opinion

• On the Succession of Zarathustra: Torn between Apollo and Dionysus, 2023.
• Myth and Mythology in Plato's Symposium, 2023.
• Social and religious transformation of the Yezidi diaspora in Germany and its influence on the role of women, 2022.
• Passion/Ashura, Violence and Martyrs from the Perspective of Navid Kermani: Criticism of Religion in a Public Debate as an Examination of the Historical Experience of Religion, 2022.
• The social role of religious minorities in the field of tension between city and country in 18th century Algeria using the example of Muhammad ben 'Abd ar-Rahman, 2020.
• Study of Kant's Practical Philosophy, 2020.
• Are Musicians the Philosophers of the Modern Age? 2019.
• Tradition and innovation in the work "Stille und Umkehr" (1970) by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. A musical-philosophical consideration, 2019 (Expertise in the subject of musicology).
• The Practice of Law in Islam - Traditional Interpretation and Modern Progress of Law from the Qur'an, 2018.
• Tendency of unstoppable bureaucracy - What possibilities and dangers does Max Weber's bureaucratic type of rule imply? 2018.
• The idea of the doctor according to Karl Jaspers in the present. What is a good doctor? 2017 (Expert opinion in the subject of medicine).
• On the meaning of the terms "doubt" and "knowledge" in René Descartes' Meditations, 2017.
• The relationship of gender / gender roles among Turkish Muslims between religious norm, habitus and challenges in the diaspora using the example of the headscarf debate. A cultural-philosophical perspective, 2016.
• Nuran and Maya. Two Images of Women between Tradition and Modernity - A Comparison of the Novels "Seelenfrieden" (1949) and "Serenade for Nadja" (2010) by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and Zülfi Levaneli, 2016.
• The soft space, 2016.
• The Muslim Woman in Germany - Possible Conflicts at School, 2015.
• Human free will versus determinism - A review of the compatibility thesis according to Thomas Hobbes, 2015.