Founded in 1982, Metis has published over 1000 books, aiming to involve the cultural climate of Turkey from a critical perspective, in the following series Literature (local and translations); Art, History, Criticism and Philosophy; The World We Live In (Contemporary World Politics); Black and White (Contemporary Turkish Politics); Women s Studies; Film Studies; Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis; Literary Criticism; Metis Science; Metis Readers and Little Philosophers.