Journal Article

Türkiye'de Modernleşmenin Süreçsizliği: Hürriyetin Peşinde Cemil Meriç

Doğanay, Taylan Can

2017

Overview

Cemil Meriç (1916-1987) who has a exclusive writing style is an unique philosopher for political thought in Turkey. His writing style is so fascinating that it's difficult to be different from his writing style while writing about his ideas. Therefore, Meriç is still unique philosopher because of that Meriç's writing style is cause to yawn the academic writing style. Cemil Meriç's thoughts which are presented by Meriç discussing distance in between idea and actual are derived from his meaning world. Thence the method which is used by Meriç especially in ideas about political thought in Turkey appears because Meriç usually refers the historicity. And this method is not an analysis contrariwise it is a comparison. The question of what is not information is the basic approach in this method. İn this context Meriç examines cultural values that political thoughts are pullulated by these values, additionally Meriç never ignore the universal feature of thought. This article includes the liberty issue discoursed by Meriç. The relationship between subject and purpose is connected in search of new theme in the Meriç's ideas. İn this perspective the liberty that is subject of this article is examined in context textual an d discursive. İn this perspective, data acquiring and analysis technique of this article is discourse analysis on text that Meriç's books is fundamental source for acquiring data. Thus, all of the expressive entirety related with liberty carefully is compiled considering modernization process in Turkey.

• Publisher: Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University
• Subject: Freedoms / Meric, Cemil (1916-87) / Modernization / Philosophers / Studies / Writing