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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