The course will deal with the basic social and political
ideas developed in the early and late republican period in
Turkey. in the first part a special emphasis will be given
to the formation of the social thought via the constitution
of the notion of law and society within the framework of
the 'essential' conflictual concepts, such as east-west,
modernity-conservatism. In the second part basic
schools of thought (like blue Anatolia) and the ideas and
arguments of the prominent thinkers and intellectuals will
be analyzsed. in this regard new understanding of the
social and the political will be dissected with special
reference to such debates as, modernity, postmodernity,
secularism, political Islam, Europe, globalisation. An
extensive review of Turkish literature in this context is
imperative.
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