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Atatèurk : an intellectual biography

Hanioوglu, M. ًSèukrèu, author

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\"When Mustafa Kemal Atatèurk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science - and by the personality cult Atatèurk created around himself - would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the first in-depth look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder. In doing so, it frames him within the historical context of the turbulent age in which he lived, and explores the uneasy transition from the late Ottoman imperial order to the modern Turkish state through his life and ideas. Shedding light on one of the most complex and enigmatic statesmen of the modern era, M. Sèukrèu Hanioglu takes readers from Atatèurk's youth as a Muslim boy in the volatile ethnic cauldron of Macedonia, to his education in nonreligious and military schools, to his embrace of Turkish nationalism and the modernizing Young Turks movement. Who was this figure who sought glory as an ambitious young officer in World War I, defied the victorious Allies intent on partitioning the Turkish heartland, and defeated the last sultan? Hanioglu charts Atatèurk's intellectual and ideological development at every stage of his life, demonstrating how he was profoundly influenced by the new ideas that were circulating in the sprawling Ottoman realm. He shows how Atatèurk drew on a unique mix of scientism, materialism, social Darwinism, positivism, and other theories to fashion a grand utopian framework on which to build his new nation.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Atatèurk, Kemal, 1881-1938. / Atatèurk, Kemal, 1881-1938 Political and social views. / Atatèurk, Kemal, 1881-1938 Knowledge and learning. / 1900-1999 / Intellectual life. / Learning and scholarship. / Political and social views. / Politics and government. / Social change. / Social conditions. / Turkey Politics and government 1918-1960. / Turkey Intellectual life 20th century. / Turkey Social conditions 20th century. / Social change Turkey History 20th century. / Turkey.
• ISBN: 0691175829, 9780691175829

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