Ekin Erkan
Art Critic, Art History Researcher, and Philosopher in New York, NY
Ekin Erkan is a Turkish philosopher, art critic, and art history researcher. Erkan's philosophy and aesthetics research is anchored in Kant & Hegel's theoretical philosophy. Erkan's area of concentration in art history is currently in Roberto Matta, revisionist histories of 20th century Abstract Expressionism, and the State Department's co-optation of the New York avant-garde prefigures.
Erkan can be contacted via email at ekinerkan[at]aol.com.
Below are links to some of Erkan's recently published work:
- "Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics.", The British Journal of Aesthetics 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac068
- "Kant’s Metaphysics of the Self: The Self as a “Clear” Representation.", Philosophia 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-022-00595-9
- "Charles Ray and the Uncanny at the Met.", White Hot Magazine June 2022.
- "Nellie Mae Rowe's Story of Freedom.", Hyperallergic December 22, 2022.
- "A Hero.", Cineaste Vol. XLVII, No. 3, 2022.
- "Life and Actuality: On Placing Possibility in Hegel's Modal Metaphysics.", Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 17.3, 2021, pp. 171-195.
- "Anja Jauernig, The World According to Kant: Appearances and Things in Themselves in Critical Idealism. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 2021, xii+380 pp.", Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 65.4 vol. 103, no. 4, 2021, pp. 764-769. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2021-2023
- "Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant by Paul Guyer, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, viii + 361 pp., €41.85 ($50.00) (hbk), ISBN: 9780198850335 Ekin Erkan Pages 268-274", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29.2 (2021), pp. 268-274
- "Étienne Balibar, On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing Community", Philosophy Today 65.4 (2021), pp. 971-978.
- "Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29.2 (2021), pp. 268-274.
- "Barwich, A. S. (2020). Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind", Perception (2021), pp. 1-3.