This dissertation explores the thesis that human relationships may be transformed into those that offer freedom to pursue personal goals and at the same time fulfill communal objectives, which I name “liberating relationships.” The inquiry begins with the Christian theological n…
This dissertation examines Friedrich Schiller’s, G.W.F. Hegel’s, and Søren Kierkegaard’s critiques of modernity. Through exegesis of key texts, it argues that the categories of ‘sacrifice’ and ‘reconciliation’ are crucial for understanding these critiques.
The Phenomenology of Spirit (PhS) is regarded as one of the most difficult texts in the history of philosophy and has been subjected to a wide variety of interpretations. In this paper I seek to open up an additional interpretative space by returning to Hegel's early theological…
Turkish German novelist Aras Ören's Bitte Nix Polizei is a novel that discusses the "Critical Race" problems of immigration and clandestine labor, but does so in a way that standard Postcolonial Theory models of the colonialist gaze and "mimicry" fail to fully explain. I argue t…
This work is a contribution to certain aspects of idealistic philosophy. It is a comparative study, yet it is not a comparison for the sake of comparison. This book examines the supra-rational Absolutism of the West developed under the Hegelian influence, and in the light of the…