Çetin Balanuye is a Turkish continental European philosopher and academic.

His main field of study is the idea of immanence in philosophy, immanence in the philosophies of Spinoza, Nietzsche and Deleuze, and its ethical-political consequences. He is a professor at Akdeniz University, Department of Philosophy.

He has many academic and popular published works focusing on a minor tradition that developed with Spinoza - Nietzsche - Deleuze, especially within the framework of the idea of immanence. Published in 2012, Spinoza: Bir Hakikat İfadesi is the first Turkish copyrighted work in which Spinoza's three main works are explained together systematically.

If Balanuye is known to a wide readership, it's largely because Spinoza'nın Sevinci Nereden Geliyor? [Where Does Spinoza's Joy Come from?], a book published in 2017. Adhering strictly to Spinoza's teaching but enriched with creative prose pieces selected from everyday life, the book soon went through numerous editions and contributed to the adoption of Spinoza's teaching by outside readers as well as philosophers in Turkey. The book argues that as or more than the fleeting manifestations of the concept of joy, it is also possible for joy to turn into an established disposition, and that there is an inseparable relationship between such joy and the power to exist. We have certain assumptions that block this possibility, and these assumptions are deeply rooted, hidden and decisive. These assumptions (transcendence, free will, and teleology), each based largely on our illusions, have not only been weakened by Spinoza, but have shown that these assumptions can be abandoned, at least to some extent. And, when this is achieved the highly liberating ethical and political implications of a new notion of "power" will possibly follow.

Balanuye published the first book of the Naturans series, which he planned as a trilogy, in 2020 with the name Naturans I: Towards a New Ontology. In this book, it is said that the aim is to organize a new idea of ontology, known as the power ontology, which satisfies the five conditions, all in harmony with Spinozism: Monism, non-antropocentrism, immanence, expressionism and anti-essentialist interactivism.

Balanuye, along with many other contemporary philosophers, issued a statement against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. [ https://philosophersforukraine.com.ua... ]