
Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey A Hermeneutic Reconsideration Andrew Davison
- Price: £35.00
- Add to Basket
Share this page:
- Series:
- Yale Studies in Hermeneutics
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 11 Aug 1998
- ISBN:
- 9780300069365
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 280 pages: 235 x 156mm
- Sales territories:
- World
Categories:
Led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a modernist Turkish elite in the 1920s wrested political power from an empire in which Islam had exercised great political, social, and cultural power. Atatürk instituted policies designed to end Islamic power by secularizing politics and the state. Through the lens of hermeneutics, this book examines the ideas and policies of the secularizers and those who contested the process. Davison reinterprets the founding principles and practices of a modern, secular Turkey and closely reexamines the crucial ideas of the Turkish nationalist thinker Ziya Gökalp, who laid the conceptual groundwork for Turkey’s Westernization experience. The application of hermeneutics, the author finds, remedies the methodological shortcomings of Western political analysts and provides a better understanding of the processes of secularization in Turkey as well as elsewhere in the modern world.
"This book is both an excellent explication of what hermeneutic interpretation means in the context of the social sciences and a fascinating demonstration of its uses."?Clifford Geertz
?An important book and a welcome addition to the literature on the subject.??Sabri Sayari, Middle East Journal
?Davison cogently reexamines the relation between religion and the state in the Turkish Republic. . . . Those interested in a tightly reasoned reappraisal of the modernizing reforms of Kemal Ataturk?s regime in the 1920s and ?30s will find this a rewarding and informative work.??Choice
?This is a valuable discussion of how the modern era constructed prejudices about non-modern others. The survey of works that deconstruct Modernism is a helpful guide to the basic concepts and history of Modernism.??Dane Kusic, MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Bulletin
-
The King's Harvest
Brian Lander£30.00 -
The War of Words
Harold James£20.00 -
Intentions in Great Power Politics
Sebastian Rosato£30.00 -
An Insider's Guide to the UN
Linda Fasulo£14.99 -
After Democracy
Zizi Papacharissi£20.00 -
Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes
Steven B. Smith£25.00 -
This Is Not Normal
Cass R. Sunstein£20.00 -
On Democracy
Robert A. Dahl£14.99 -
The Last Brahmin
Luke A. Nichter£35.00 -
Overcoming Necessity
Thomas P. Crocker£50.00 -
The Third Walpurgis Night
Karl Kraus£25.00 -
Sovereignty, RIP
Don Herzog£30.00 -
Responsible Parties
Frances McCall Rosenbluth£15.00 -
Arms and Influence
Thomas C. Schelling£14.99 -
City on a Hill
Abram C. Van Engen£25.00 -
The Hidden Face of Rights
Kathryn Sikkink£20.00 -
Climate Change from the Streets
Michael Mendez£40.00 -
Seapower States
Andrew Lambert£11.99 -
The Underground Wealth of Nations
Jeannette Graulau£65.00 -
Congress's Constitution
Josh Chafetz£24.00
-
The Tragedy of Finitude
Jos de Mul£28.00 -
Edmund Husserl's Freiburg Years
J. N. Mohanty£75.00 -
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Jean Grondin£36.00 -
Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics
Hans-Georg Gadamer£16.00 -
Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition
Kathy Eden£17.00 -
Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink
Ronald Bruzina£45.00 -
Gadamer in Conversation
Hans-Georg Gadamer£19.00 -
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time
Walter Jost£54.00 -
Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics
Jean Grondin£19.00 -
Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern
Gerald L. Bruns£20.00