Intellectual origins of the republic
Subtitle: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the genealogy of liberalism in Turkey
By: by Hilmi Ozan Özavcı
Series: Studies in the history of political thought -- v. 10
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston; Leiden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004297371; 9789004297364
Subjects: Politics and government; Intellectuals; Liberalism; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The making of a liberal in Turkey; title: Ideas and contexts; title: Ağaoğlu in literature; title: Between two worlds: ideas in the making; title: Family life and education; title: Encounter with Russian radicalism; title: Paris; title: Early French influences; title: James Darmesteter and Ernest Renan; title: Early writings; title: Return to the Near East; title: The Caucasus; title: The 1905 petition, violence and the end of the oil revolution; title: Istanbul; title: The turkish hearths; title: Activities during World War i; title: Rights, religion and nationalism; title: Rights and equality; title: Religion, modernity and the question ofwomen; title: The origins of Turkish nationalism; title: Founding the Republic; title: The establishment of an authoritarian regime; title: The economy and a temporary democracy; title: Revolution and ideology; title: A liberal revolution?; title: A critique of the revolutionaries; title: Ideology and the intelligentsia; title: Two liberalisms and democracy; title: State, society and the individual; title: Liberal order; title: Durkheim and Ağaoğlu; title: Elements of modern liberalism: division of labour; title: Occupational groupings and interdependence; title: Civic equality and individual liberty; title: Etatism and private initiative; title: Westernisation and nationalism; title: Turkey's westernisation; title: The hidden dialogue between Gökalp and Ağaoğlu; title: Nationalism revisited; title: Monday evening talks; title: The moral ideology of the republic; title: Petr Kropotkin and the sources of morality; title: The origins of moral decadence revisited; title: The land of free men; title: The divided self; title: Conclusion: the road to liberty?