Gaye Çankaya Eksen Author

Gaye Çankaya Eksen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Galatasaray University. She earned her PhD in Philosophy in 2013 through a joint doctoral program between Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Galatasaray University. A revised version of her doctoral dissertation was published in French under the title Spinoza et Sartre. De la politique des singularités à l’éthique de générosité (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017). In collaboration with Turhan Ilgaz, she translated Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le néant (Being and Nothingness) into Turkish. Her research and publications specialise in early modern and contemporary philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the thought of Baruch Spinoza and Jean-Paul Sartre. Her work addresses issues in ethics, political philosophy, phenomenology, environmental philosophy, and contemporary debates concerning non-human animals. David Maruzzella is a writer, editor and translator based in Chicago. He earned his PhD in philosophy from DePaul University and holds an MA in philosophie contemporaine from the École normale supérieure. With Gil Moréjon he translated a selection of essays on Spinoza by Alexandre Matheron published by EUP in 2020. Chantal Jaquet is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is the author of numerous books on Spinoza in French including Sub specie aeternitatis: étude des concepts de temps, durée et éternité chez Spinoza (1997), Spinoza ou la Prudence (1997), L’unité d corps et de l’esprit: Affects, actions, passions chez Spinoza (2004), Les expressions de la puissance d’agir chez Spinoza (2005), and Spinoza à l’oeuvre, composition des corps et force des idées (2017).