Speaker: Emre Şan
In the sixth seminar, titled The Visible and the Invisible, we will focus on Merleau-Ponty’s ontology and examine how he had transformed the classical philosophical terminology utilized in thinking about difference. This undertaking, which explores differentiation, non-coincidence and distinction, will enable us to reconsider the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible, which we have been tracking since the first seminar.
Emre Şan received his bachelor’s degree from Galatasaray University, and completed his master’s degree and doctorate at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Pursuing a post-doctoral research at École Normale Supérieur following his PhD, Emre Şan’s book on transcendence as a phenomenological problem was published with a preface by Renaud Barbaras (Paris, Mimesis, 2012). The author has published articles in national and international journals and book series, in Turkish, French, English and Spanish, as well as working as an editor in publications on Contemporary French Philosophy. He has been serving as a member of the editorial board of the periodical Cogito, and was awarded the Prix Mercier, presented biennially by L’Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). Emre Şan is currently an Associate Professor at Istanbul 29 Mayıs University.