Özgür Uçar
Ph.D. student (Scholarship holder 10/2012-03/2016)
1st Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Kaufmann
2nd Supervisor: Dr. Astrid Meier
Mentor: PD Dr. Ralph Buchenhorst
Overview
Doctoral Project: Exploring the Links Between Human Rights, Citizenship and Essentialism: a Philosophical Approach
The main concern of the study is to discuss the relationship between Human Rights, Citizenship and Essentialism in a philosophical perspective, and to explain how the essentialist approaches form and determine the condition of different identity groups, the citizenship constructs, human rights conceptualisation and the life of individuals. In this context, the main hypothesis of the study is that the nationalism as an essentialist approach determines the manner and extent of citizenship models. This study aims to define problems and categorizations related with the concepts, and to examine this problems and concepts critically. The study’s attention is focused not only this theoretical approach on the relation between Human Rights, Essentialism and Citizenship concepts, but also provide a framework to analyze facts and events regarding the citizenship formation, nation building process, and minority status of a different identity group in Turkey.
Academic curriculum vitae
| Since 09/2011 | Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Doctoral candidate in Philosophy |
| 09/2006- 02/2010 | Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkey. Philosophy, M.A. M.A. Thesis: The Relation between Philosophy and Art in F. W. J. Schelling |
| 09/2001-01/2006 | B.A. Thesis: The Tragic as the possibility of affirmation of life in the context of the "Birth of Tragedy" |
Publications
- Uçar, Ö.; Koşar, B. (2006): "The Idea of Enlightenment and against World problems in terms of philosophy", Kaygi: Uludağ University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Journal of Philosophy - Congress Special Issue (ISSN: 1303-4251), 6 (Spring 2006), 11-13.
- Uçar, Ö. (2006): "To Be Solution", Felsefe Yazın, 9, 120-125.
- Uçar, Ö.; Koşar, B. (2005): "The Idea of Enlightenment", Journal of Uludağ University 5 (18), 22-24.
Conferences and Seminars
| 2013 | Citizenship: Beyond the nation state,; XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, August 4-10 2013, Athen, Greece; Verbal presentation. |
| 2006 | Philosophical Aproachs to the concept of ‘Tragic’, Turkish Congress of Aesthetics, Verbal presentation; Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. |
| 2005 | To Be Solution, Philosophy and Education Symposium, Verbal presentation; Association of Philosophers, Ankara, Turkey. |
| 2004 | The Concept of Creativeness and Social Realism on Art, 4th National Congress of Philosophy Students, Verbal presentation; Muğla University, Muğla, Turkey. |
| 2003 | Which Music?: Adorno and Social Realism, 4th National Congress of Philosophy Students, Verbal presentation; Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. |
Academic Interests
- Political philosophy
- Citizenship Studies
- German Idealısm and German Romanticism
- German Aesthetic Tradition