Yaşar University Department of English Language and Literature, English Language and Literature Seminar Series presents THE EASTERN FLÂNEUR: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL READING OF ORHAN PAMUK’S NEW LIFE Assoc. Prof. Cihan Camcı, Akdeniz University, Philosophy Department Ciha n Cam cı received his PhD from the department of philosophy, METU in 2005. He studied at the University of Essex for an academic year through the TUBA United PhD scholarship in 2003-2004. He is teaching as an Assoc. Prof of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Akdeniz University, mainly on phenomenology, existentialism, philosophy of language, philosophy of art, philosophy of identity and occasionally writes on identity, politics and ethics in the daily newspaper Radikal. His current interests are early Heidegger, phenomenological interpretation of modern Turkish literature by writers like Edip Cansever, Cemal Süreya, and Orhan Pamuk. ð Orhan Pamuk’s New Life is based on a character, a wanderer who reminds us of Karl Jaspers’s wellknown sentence: “philosophy is being on the way to.” Existentialist postmodern philosophy, which can well be named post-romantic philosophy, seeks the meaning of life as a whole that is left aside by modernism. In this paper, I will try to read the main character of Orhan Pamuk’s New Life, Osman, as an eastern flâneur seeking the meaning of life as such throughout his odyssey. I will refer to Heidegger’s notion of temporality and everydayness as a possibility of the tacit understanding of the meaning of life and discuss Osman with reference to his obsession with Canan. I will mention the etymological connotations of Canan in tasavvuf and its attribution to Osman’s ignorance of the everyday life, and argue that his dalgın, absent-minded, dreamy mood is not only due to his beloved girl but also due to the hak, which means oneness, the undivided unity of man and god, being, beyond earthly property and satisfaction, beyond daily goals, the final goal, the goal of being in the world, god. Oneness, which Osman seeks in his journey, can be thought as the undivided unity of temporality in a Heideggerian sense. THURSDAY, APRIL 30 TH AT 17:00 SELÇUK YAŞAR KAMPUS Y615 ð