On October 27, 2025, Prof. Dr. Feyza Şule GÜNGÖR, one of our department faculty members, met with us in our department's Prof. Dr. Erdal Baykan Seminar Hall with her speech titled "An Evaluation within the Framework of Joachim Ritter on the Initial Reception of Existentialism in Turkey".
Prof. Dr. Feyza Şule Güngör, in her speech, focused on the philosophy of Joachim Ritter, a key figure in introducing existentialism to Turkish academia through his lectures and conferences on the subject at Istanbul University’s Department of Philosophy in the 1950s, as well as through the students he mentored.
Prof. Dr. Güngör examined the initial reception of existentialism’s core theses within the country’s academic circles and the intellectual climate it fostered, situating her discussion within the context of Ritter’s influence. She did so by analyzing Ritter’s reflections on the variability of existentialism and the continuity of philosophia perennis.
