> AteÅŸ Uslu

AteÅŸ Uslu is a historian of political thought, who graduated from the International Relations Department of Galatasaray University. He earned his master’s degree in History from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He completed his doctoral studies through a joint program between the same university and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest.

He began his teaching career as a guest lecturer at Galatasaray University Department of Political Science and later became an assistant professor at Istanbul Aydın University Department of Political Science and International Relations. In 2014, he joined the Faculty of Political Science at Istanbul University, where he earned the title of Associate Professor in the field of political thought. He was promoted to full professor in 2023. During the 2024-2025 academic year, he was a visiting researcher at the Chair for Social Philosophy (Prof. Rahel Jaeggi) at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is working on a sabbatical research project titled Political Implications of György Lukács’s Ontology of Social Being. Beginning in October 2025, he continues his research on Lukács’s political philosophy in his later years (1956–1971) at the Chair of the History of Knowledge at the University of Konstanzas a guest researcher.

In addition to his articles in various journals and books on the history of political thought, cultural history, and political history, he is the author of three books in Turkish: Lukács: The Road to Marx (2006), Introduction to the History of Political Thought: Historiography, Core Approaches, and Research Methods (2017), and The Social History of Political Thought (3 volumes, 2021).Â

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Yer: Konstanz University

In his later works throughout the 1960s, Georg Lukács sought to develop an ontological framework for the critical study of society. The result was The Ontology of Social Being, a monumental and posthumous work that revisited the question of the relationship between nature and society. Lukács conceived this project as an alternative to two dominant tendencies: the marginalization of nature within Western critical theory, and the naturalistic reductionism characteristic of much Eastern European Marxist literature on the dialectics of nature. The present paper aims to situate Lukács’s ideas on the relationship between nature and society within the broader intellectual debates…

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Bu çevrimiçi oturumda, György Lukács’ın 1956 ve 1971 arasındaki dönemde, Toplumsal Varlığın Ontolojisi baÅŸta olmak üzere çeÅŸitli eserlerde ortaya koyduÄŸu siyasal düşüncelerini konu alan TÃœBÄ°TAK 2219 yurtdışı araÅŸtırma projemin bulgularının bir kısmını sunup tartışmaya açmayı hedefliyorum.

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Yer: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  More than seven decades have passed since the publication of The Destruction of Reason by Georg Lukács. To this day, the book remains highly controversial. Many critics disapprove of its allegedly dogmatic framework and its harsh treatment of various strands of 19th and 20th century German philosophy. In our discussion, we seek to contextualize The Destruction of Reason, examining its methodology as a work of intellectual historiography and understanding it as part of a larger philosophical project rather than merely as a symptom of dogmatic rigidity. We also aim to explore whether the book offers relevant insights for understanding the ideological resurgence…

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Özgür Ãœniversite’nin 2024 Güz döneminde düzenlediÄŸi Ölümünün 100.Yılında Lenin: Fikir Eylem ve Eserler semineri – 3. Hafta