Došancan Özsel, MA, Political science
dogancan.ozsel@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +420 775 353 336
Visiting Lectureships
Schmitt, Strauss, and the Neoconservatives: A Critique of Liberalism
Host: Anglo American University, Prague
Date: March, 2009
Theme: This lecture focused on a genre of critique of the liberal parliamentary systems. It began by the presentation of Carl Schmitt's critiques against liberalism, then turned to Leo Strauss' concerns about the liberal culture in USA and offered to read these concerns in close relation with Schmittian thinking. In the last part of the lecture, the neoconservative outlook is also presented and the commonalities between neoconservatism and the Schmittian-Straussian line of thought was underlined.
An Introduction to Marxism
Host: Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Date: April, 2008
Theme: A three-hours introductory course on Marxism. The lecture covered a wide scope of subjects ranging from Marxism's philosophical roots in the Enlightenment thinking to Neo and Post Marxist ideas and the critique of Marxism.