Doğa Öner
Ph.D. Candidate
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. Stony Brook University (In Progress) • BA in Philosophy and Political Science, Vassar College (2019)
Areas of Specialization: Hegel, Marx, critical theory, social philosophy
Doğa Öner is a PhD candidate working on Marx, Hegel, critical theory, and especially the normative dimensions of Marxist social theory. He is a Max Kade Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin and a co-editor of the Felsefenin Çağrısı: Anlamaya Davet (The Call of Philosophy, Invitation to Understanding) book series at Opus Kitap in Turkey. Taking the workplace and working-class struggles as a site of philosophical reflection, his research focuses on the concept of freedom in Marx and Hegel, domination under capitalism, ideology critique, and how class struggle is an immanent normative process through which new consciousness and practices of freedom develop. He has published works on Marxist and Hegelian theory of freedom, ethics, social ontology, and labor.
Research Interests: German Idealism, social ontology, ethics, philosophy of labor, recognition theory, social struggles and conflict
Selected Publications (List)
- “Bildung, Domination and Childhood Under Capitalism” in The Call of Philosophy, Invitation to Understanding: Childhood, Rights and Philosophy (in Turkish). Opus Kitap, 2026—forthcoming.
- “Marx’s Critiques of Capitalism Based on His Practical Ethics of Freedom: An Ontological Reconstruction Through the Hegelian Theories of Social Freedom and Ethical Life,” Cambridge Journal of Economics. Special Issue on Ontological Theorising and the History of Economic Thought. Volume 49, Issue 6, November 2025, pp. 1187-1213, doi: 10.1093/cje/beaf049.
- Co-editor—The Call of Philosophy, Invitation to Understanding: Philosophy, There Wherever You Are! (in Turkish). Opus Kitap, 2025.
- “Capitalism and Democracy: The Dictatorship of Capital Behind the Free Market” in The Call of Philosophy, Invitation to Understanding: Philosophy, There Wherever You Are! (in Turkish). Opus Kitap, 2025.
Recent Presentations (List)
- “Ethical Values in Class Struggle: An Analysis of Dignity and Freedom.” Historical Materialism: From Catastrophe to Struggle. Istanbul, Turkey, 2026.
- “Freedom from the Standpoint of the Proletariat and Its Revolutionary Class Struggle.” Historical Materialism: Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of The Neoliberal Order. London SOAS, UK, 2025.
- “Capitalism and Children’s Rights: Rights, Forms of Domination and Subject Formation Under Capitalism” World Philosophy Day Symposium, Childhood, Rights and Philosophy, Opus Publishing House. Istanbul, Turkey, 2025.
- “Marx’s Early Critique of Hegel: Understanding Marx’s Inheritance and Critique of Hegel’s Social Freedom.” Ontological Theorising and the History of Economic Thought Workshop. University of Cambridge, UK, 2024.
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