Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 4.7 (Day 3)

D3-S4-K1

15 May 2026, 14:30

Kurul Odası (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 4.7 (Day 3): Edebiyat Bilimi / Literary Studies

• Kristina Kočan (University of Maribor)

Philosophy and Poetics of Crisis in Rudolf Pannwitz (D3-S4-K1)

László V. Szabó (University of Pannonia)

15/05/2026, 14:30

Oral Presentation

Crisis: there is perhaps no word we can hear more often today, in the age of the omniscient media and economic and political turmoil. One speaks of financial and political, social or environmental crisis, medical or psychological crisis, the crisis of globalism and liberalism, crisis of democracy and welfare society, of church and state, crisis of values and faith, and so on. The inflationary...

The Collapse of the Heroized Concept of Nationality, Exemplified by Some Protagonists in László Krasznahorkai's Work (D3-S4-K1)

Erika Verešová (Istanbul University)

15/05/2026, 14:50

Oral Presentation

László Krasznahorkai's life's work to date is already characterized by generalizing features of its reception. These include the dark world of his prose works, the visionary character of the narrative instance, the apocalyptic narrative situations arising from the conflict between chaos and order, the issue of poverty or indigence as a societal trap, the infinite sentence fabric embodying...

The Crisis of Postmodern Irony: The Ethos of New Sincerity in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (D3-S4-K1)

Gökhan Albayrak (Ankara University)

15/05/2026, 15:10

Oral Presentation

This paper examines the literary and ethical implications of what can be described as the crisis of postmodern irony, a cultural and aesthetic condition wherein irony, once a tool of critique, has become exhausted, depoliticized, and incapable of sustaining affective or ethical engagement. Against this backdrop, the essay situates Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005) as a paradigmatic instance of...