JOHN CHRISTOPHER'IN “EMPTY WORLD” ROMANI ÜZERİNE NİETZSCHECİ BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

John Christopher'ın Empty World (1977) eseri ölümcül bir salgını çocukların gözünden aktaran bir apokaliptik romandır. Özel anlamda, hikâye, ailesini kaybeden ve yalnızlığını gidermek amacıyla Londra'nın sokaklarını alt üst eden ve ıssız bir şehirde hayatta kalma mücadelesi veren on beş yaşındaki Neil Miller'ın penceresinden sunulmaktadır. Sonunda kendi yaşlarında iki kız olan Lucy ve Billie ile tanışan Neil, onlarla birlikte yaşamaya karar verir. Bu çalışma Christopher'ın Empty World eserini felsefi bir açıdan, özellikle Nietzscheci bir bakış açısıyla analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Friedrich Nietzsche sosyal ve beşerî bilimlerin tüm alanlarını büyük ölçüde etkilemiş bir düşünürdür. Bu bağlamda makale Nietzsche'nin ileri sürdüğü: güç istenci, ebedi döngü ve amor fati doktrinlerini tartışmaktadır. Bu üç kavram, Nietzsche'nin kozmolojik teorisi ve metafizik hipotezinde birbiriyle bağlantılıdır. Sonuç olarak, bu makalenin temel amacı Christopher'ın Empty World romanında Nietzsche'ye ait söz konusu doktrinlerin nasıl ve ne ölçüde tezahür ettiklerini açığa çıkarmaktır. Bu tezahürler, romanın zaman, mekân ve yaygın temalarının ışığında metne yapılan göndermelerle tartışılacaktır.

A NIETZSCHEAN INQUIRY INTO JOHN CHRISTOPHER'S “EMPTY WORLD”

John Christopher's Empty World (1977) is an apocalyptic novel which depicts a fatalpandemic through the eyes of adolescent children. In specific, the story is presentedthrough the perspective of fifteen-year-old Neil Miller who loses his family and heads off tothe streets of London to seek company in his quest for survival in a desolated city. Neilfinally meets Lucy and Billie, two girls his age and the children then decide to move intogether. This study aims to analyse Christopher's Empty World from a philosophical, inparticular, Nietzschean point of view. Friedrich Nietzsche is a philosopher who had animmense impact in all areas of the social sciences and the humanities. This article therebydiscusses three Nietzschean doctrines: the will to power, the eternal recurrence and amorfati. All these three notions are interrelated in Nietzsche's cosmological theory and hismetaphysical hypothesis. Thus, the ultimate purpose of this article is to reveal how and towhat extent Nietzschean doctrines are manifested in John Christopher's Empty World.These manifestations will be discussed with relevant references to the text in associationwith the setting and prevalent themes of the novel.

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