“AHLAT AĞACI”NIN GÖLGESİNDE, KENTİN VE TAŞRANIN ÖTESİNDE: MODERN GÜNDELİK YAŞAMDA BIKKINLIK RUH HALİNİN YÜKSELİŞİ
UNDER THE SHADOW OF “THE WILD PILLOW TREE” AND BEYOND THE CITY AND PROVINCE: THE RISE OF BLASÉ ATTITUDE IN THE MODERN EVERYDAY LIFE

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the question of blasé attitude that has turned into an extent of modern culture and into an ordinary manifestation of everyday life. The term blasé attitude, which was used firstly by Georg Simmel as sociological case peculiar to the urban life, is dealt with in this article as human condition that cannot be reduced to spatial borders. In this study, blasé attitude, which has more destructive feature as against melancholia, is methodologically debated through the cinematic characters of the film Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree, 2018) directed by the Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Thus, the cinematic projection crystallises competently the issue of blasé attitude that is grey, depressed and pessimistic affect. As seen in Ceylan’s films, modern individuals face off not only against the Other but also against their existence, conscience and given values. Moreover, there is no obvious showdown among sides. This article examines blasé attitude as individually-experienced social manner beyond urban and rural cultures zooms and essentially as modern human catastrophe.

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