Author
Günay-Erkol, Çimen
Publication Date
2017
Publication Place
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Celal Bayar University
Subject
Ayfer Tunç, Hannah Arendt, Modernism, Agency, The banality of evil
Type
Periodical
Language
Turkish
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1304-4796
Record ID
2aed7573-361f-4b66-aa54-044d851bbb7e
Library Location
Humanities and Social Sciences
Date
2017
Sample Text
Ayfer Tunç, one of the leading contemporary writers of Turkish literature, emphasizes the dilemmas of modernism in her novels and includes the contradictions of people alienated from society and nature in the modernizing world. In Tunç's literature, themes such as "freedom", "making decisions" and "searching for the truth" expand and become active by combining with various social and political problems related to modernism. Public space is evaluated within the framework of these themes as an act of creating a common world. Tunç's effort to come to terms with modernism, just like that of Hannah Arendt, one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and who worked on mass politics, also requires a review of concepts such as "agency", "power", "public sphere", "evil" and "violence". In this article, Tunç and Arendt are brought together and how they bring some of the dead ends of modernism into discussion is discussed. Arendt's famous conceptualization of the "banality of evil" has taken its place in history as an important criticism of modernism. While Tunç's novel, World Pain, published in 2014, reveals the "banality of evil" underlined by Arendt, the author's novel, A Falsely Narrated Brief History of a House of Madness, published in 2009, adds "the banality of madness" to this concept. In this article, based on Tunç's two novels, the deadlocks that the author sensed in modernism and transformed into literature with his unique style are included, and these deadlocks are discussed in the light of Arendt's theoretical discussions.
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