Ferda Keskin
Ferda Keskin is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Istanbul Bilgi University, where he also directed the Cultural Studies Graduate Program until 2006.
Ferda Keskin is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Istanbul Bilgi University, where he also directed the Cultural Studies Graduate Program until 2006. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and taught at Boğazici University from 1994 to 2002. His research and interest areas include Foucault, social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of social sciences and philosophy and literature. Ferda Keskin is the editor and co-translator of a 6-volume translation series from Foucault’s Dits et écrits into Turkish with an introduction for each volume. He is the co-editor of Pera Peras Poros: Espacement et temporalisation de l’étranger. Atelier avec et autour de Jacques Derrida. In addition to numerous articles published, he has done translations from contemporary philosophers as Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Jacques Derrida, Raymond Geuss, Emanuel Levinas and Catherine Malabou. He is member of Istanbul Seminars scientific committee.
