Posthumanist Traces in The Ural Batyr Epic: A Critique of Anthropocentrism, and Becoming-World
Ural Batır Destanı’nda Posthümanist İzler: İnsanmerkezcilik Eleştirisi ve Dünya-oluş
Kaçar E. Bainiyazov A.
June 2024Cyprus International University
Folklor/Edebiyat
2024#30Issue 118377 - 394 pp.
The reconfiguration of the concept of the human within the anthropocentric framework of Enlightenment reason has resulted in epistemological confusion. One potential avenue for resolving this confusion involves redefining humanity as an ecosophical entity and reconceptualizing it as a posthuman concern. Within this framework, posthumanist theory seeks to surmount the epistemological impasses associated with this issue by exploring novel and alternative linguistic domains. Grounded in this posthumanist approach, this study investigates the non-anthropocentric and non-speciesist attitudes as well as environmentalist inclinations of Ural, the central figure in the Ural Batyr epic, through the utilization of the concepts of becoming-animal and becoming-world as introduced by Braidotti in posthumanist discourse. We interpret Ural as an ecosophical protagonist who transcends biological formalism and examine his capacity to forge an interspecies becoming-world network by invoking not only bios, but also zoe and geos entities. In doing so, we seek to conceptualize Ural’s actions that redefine the boundaries of the discursive universe he inhabits, along with his ecosophical rapport with the planet, within the framework of critiques of anthropocentrism and convergences with posthumanist thought.
anthropocentrism , becoming-animal , becoming-world , posthumanism , Ural Batyr
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Ardahan University, Faculty of Human Sciences and Literature, Department of Philosophy, Ardahan, Turkey
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