Mustafa Caner, PhD

Politics, Middle East, Iran, Türkiye, Sakarya, ORMER

Suggested Books

  • Political Philosophy
    • Plato. The Republic. Translated by Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee and Melissa Lane. Penguin Classics, 2007.
    • Machiavelli, Niccolo. Prince, The, 2021.
    • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Hackett Publishing, 1992.
    • Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Penguin Classics, 2017.
    • Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government. Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated, 1980.
    • Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Penguin Classics, 2015.
    • Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty, 2017.
    • Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
    • Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Penguin Classics, 2017.
    • Strauss, Leo. What Is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
  • Political Science
    • Heywood, Andrew. Politics. Red Globe Press, 2019.
    • Aristotle. Aristotle’s “Politics”: Second Edition. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
    • Dahl, Robert A. Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City. Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
    • Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism. Routledge, 1998.
    • Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 2006.
    • Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Cornell University Press, 2008.
    • Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy : Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.
    • ‌Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. Oxford University Press, 2000.
    • Sartori, Giovanni. The Theory of Democracy Revisited (I&II), 1987.
    • Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 – 1992. Wiley-Blackwell, 1993.
  • Middle Eastern Studies
    • Cleveland, William L., and Martin Bunton. A History of the Modern Middle East. Westview Press, 2016.
    • Said, Edward W. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. Penguin, 2003.
    • Said, Edward W. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. Random House, 1981.
    • Barr, James. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East. Simon & Schuster, 2012.
    • Abrahamian, Ervand. A History of Modern Iran. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
    • Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
    • Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M. Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. Pluto Press (UK), 2004.
    • Provence, Michael. The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
    • Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove/Atlantic, 1963.
    • Porsche-Ludwig, Markus, and Ying-Yu Chen. Handbook of Asian States: Geography – History – Culture – Politics – Economy, 2021.
  • Philosophy
    • Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Penguin Classics, 2006.
    • Epictetus. Discourses and Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2008.
    • Schopenhauer, Arthur. The Metaphysics of the Sexual Love. Independently Published, 2018.
    • Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One. Penguin Classics, 1961.
    • Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil. Penguin Classics, 2003.
    • Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2013.
    • Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life. Verso Books, 2020.
    • Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. University of Michigan Press, 1994.
    • Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. Guilford Press, 1991.
    • Rorty, Richard. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Psychology
    • Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontent. Penguin Classics, 2002.
    • Adler, Alfred. Understanding Human Nature: The Psychology of Personality. Simon and Schuster, 2014.
    • Jung, C. G. Four Archetypes: (From Vol. 9, Part 1 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) [New in Paper]. Princeton University Press, 2010.
    • Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.
    • Hollis, James. Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up. Penguin, 2006.
    • Hollis, James. Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men, 1994.
    • Yalom, Irvin D. Existential Psychotherapy. London, England: Basic Books, 1980.
    • Yalom, Irvin D. When Nietzsche Wept. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
    • Bly, Robert. Iron John: A Book About Men. Da Capo Press, 1990.
    • Burns, David D. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Harper Collins, 1999.
    • Levine, Amir, and Rachel Heller. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find–and Keep– Love. TarcherPerigee, 2012.
  • Literature
    • Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Vintage, 1993.
    • Tolstoy, Leo. Resurrection. Penguin Classics, 2009.
    • Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms (Classic Reprint). Forgotten Books, 2017.
    • Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
    • De Laclos, Pierre Choderlos. Dangerous Liaisons. Penguin Classics, 2007.
    • Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Royal Tunbridge Wells, England: Atlantic Books, 1989.
    • Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. 11th ed. London, England: Vintage, 2010.
    • Zweig, Stefan. Chess Story. NYRB Classics, 2006.
    • Camus, Albert. The Plague: A New Translation by Laura Marris. Vintage, 2022.
    • Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Penguin Classics, 2016.
  • Philosophy of Science
    • Chalmers, Alan. What Is This Thing Called Science? (Fourth Edition). Hackett Publishing, 2013.
    • Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
    • Feyerabend, Paul Karl. Against Method. Verso, 1993.
    • Feyerabend, Paul Karl. Science in a Free Society. Verso, 1978.