BOOK

The Formation of Turkish Republicanism

Turnaoğlu, Banu, 1983- author

2017

Overview

\"Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey in 1923, and understood exclusively in terms of Kemalist ideals, characterized by the principles of secularism, nationalism, statism, and populism. Banu Turnaoglu challenges this view, showing how Turkish republicanism represents the outcome of centuries of intellectual dispute in Turkey over Islamic and liberal conceptions of republicanism, culminating in the victory of Kemalism in the republic's formative period. Drawing on a wealth of rare archival material, Turnaoglu presents the first complete history of republican thinking in Turkey from the birth of the Ottoman state to the founding of the modern republic. She shows how the Kemalists wrote Turkish history from their own perspective, presenting their own version of republicanism as inevitable while disregarding the contributions of competing visions. Turnaoglu demonstrates how republicanism has roots outside the Western political experience, broadening our understanding of intellectual history. She reveals how the current crises in Turkish politics--including the Kurdish Question, democratic instability, the rise of radical Islam, and right-wing Turkish nationalism--arise from intellectual tensions left unresolved by Kemalist ideology. A breathtaking work of scholarship, The Formation of Turkish Republicanism offers a strikingly new narrative of the evolution and shaping of modern Turkey\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 Political and social views. / Republicanism Turkey History. / Islam and politics Turkey History. / Liberalism Turkey History. / HISTORY - Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman Empire. / HISTORY - Modern - 20th Century. / POLITICAL SCIENCE - History & Theory. / Turkey Politics and government. / Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. / Turkey Intellectual life.
• ISBN: 9780691172743

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DR486.T875 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE