• Born in 1981, Çağıl graduated from Selçuk University Faculty of Theology in 2009. In 2014, she completed her master’s thesis titled “The Place of Women in Western Philosophy” and in 2019, she completed her doctoral thesis titled “Feminism and Politics in Western Philosophy” at Atatürk University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences, Department of History of Philosophy. Currently, Çağıl is a faculty member at Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University and her fields of study include Philosophy of Religion, Hermeneutics, Semantics, Semiotics and Gender and Political Theories.

Rethinking Elitism

The semantic shift that the concepts of “elite” and “elitism” have undergone in public discourse reflects not only political polemics,