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Summary:

Analyzes the nature and content of Kemalist ideology in Turkey during the last 20 years including its close relationship to social democracy and neo-nationalism, its implied liberal philosophy of history, and its idea about human nature, to explain its endurance and relevancy to present-day Turkey.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
• Setting the scene - Kemalism in the contemporary world
• Main questions and contexts
• Research method
• Contemporary Kemalist intellectuals and their works
• Short biographies of the selected writers
• 2. Outlining the origins and suggested meanings of Kemalism
• founding of the Kemalist republic
• Kemalist experience - two contradictory interpretations
• 3. presuppositions of contemporary Kemalism
• Kemalist liberal philosophy of history
• Kemalist idea concerning the nature of truth
• Kemalist idea of human nature
• universal and the particular in history
• the nation as an historical agent
• 4. Kemalist vision of the ideal socio-political order
• Critique of the existing socio-political order
• Kemalist idea of the ̀good society'
• and how to get there
• 5. Contemporary Kemalism and its affinities: social democracy and neo-nationalism

• Contemporary Kemalism and social democracy
• Contemporary Kemalism and neo-nationalism
• 6. morphology of Kemalism
• cluster of core concepts and the Kemalist tradition
• beginnings
• Ataturk, Peker, and Bozkurt
• ̀democratic left' generation of the 1960s
• Avcioglu, Ecevit, and Soysal
• structure of contemporary Kemalism
• 7. Contemporary Kemalism, contemporary world.

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Author/Creator:

Alaranta, Toni , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Contemporary Kemalism: from universal secular-humanism to extreme Turkish nationalism [by Alaranta, T.]

Related Series:

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics; [volume] 63

Subjects:

Kemalism — History

Nationalism — Turkey — History

Turkey — Politics and government

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DR590 .A733 2014

ISBNs:

9781317916758 (electronic bk.)
1317916751 (electronic bk.)
9780415728171 [Invalid]
0415728177 [Invalid]
1315851792 [Invalid]
9781315851792 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40023414081

OCLC Numbers:

870465628

Other Control Numbers:

694293 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11627250