Road Traces in the World of Turkish Thought

The book in your hand focuses on social scientific thought and especially sociology. He makes determinations about what is hidden in the essence of the works of Hilmi Ziya Ülken, Mümtaz Turhan, Mübeccel Kıray, Cemil Meriç, Niyazi Berkes, Muzaffer Şerif, Behice Boran, Pertev Naili Boratav, who are path-breaking thinkers who have a cause and a cause. Kayalı has important comments about the cultural and intellectual environment of the periods between the founding phase of the Republic and "currentity" (that is, the eve and after 1980!), especially the 1940s. He treats the famous "Language-History teachers" and their liquidation as an insightful case about the "spirit of the times". In the background of these determinations about the intellectual environment of the 1940s and 1960s, we also see the ideas of Tanzimat and Constitutional Monarchy.

"If the cultural heritage of the past is not considered objectively without determining the intellectual topography of the country, but is embraced with arrogance or rejected with a revolutionary snobbery, nowhere will be achieved..." Kurtuluş Kayalı, the fine worker of this motto, traces the forgotten debates, the thinkers whose value is unknown or "not properly understood". This is an indispensable way to grasp the continuities in Turkish intellectual life, to put periodic differences in mentality into place, and to put problems in context. "Turning to the recent past of the history of Turkish thought, not to the sides of the simple fight in the recent past, but to the thinkers who criticize the way the problem is posed..." Kurtuluş Kayalı gives productive examples of this orientation



Number of Pages: 264

Year of Printing: 2003


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2005

Language Turkish