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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494726803321

Autore

Özavcı Hilmi Ozan

Titolo

Intellectual origins of the republic : Ahmet Agaoglu and the genealogy of liberalism in Turkey / / by Hilmi Ozan Özavcı

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29736-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Studies in the History of Political Thought, , 1873-6548 ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

320.5109561

Soggetti

Liberalism - Turkey

Intellectuals - Turkey

Electronic books.

Turkey Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Introduction / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Between Two Worlds: Ideas in the Making / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Return to the Near East / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Rights, Religion and Nationalism / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Founding the Republic / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Revolution and Ideology / H. Ozan Özavcı -- State, Society and the Individual / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Westernisation and Nationalism / H. Ozan Özavcı -- The Moral Ideology of the Republic / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Conclusion: The Road to Liberty? / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Bibliography / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Index / H. Ozan Özavcı.

Sommario/riassunto

Few studies tracing the history of liberalism have taken into account that its reception in non-Western or westernising countries, in the form of the denial or acceptance of its core values and institutions, is an important aspect of the liberal tradition. In Intellectual Origins of the Republic: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the Genealogy of Liberalism in Turkey , Ӧzavcı investigates the histories of liberalism and nationalism in the late Russian and Ottoman Empires and early Republican Turkey through the prism of the life, ideas and times of the revolutionary writer Ahmet Ağaoğlu. This is the first in-depth study in the English language that places under scrutiny the Turkish idea of liberty and its endless yet



destructive flirt with nationalism.