Browsing: Ideology

Taner Timur examines Ottoman and Republican history through social structure, class, political institutions, ideology, identity, Marxism, modernisation, and the methodology of historiography.

Şerif Mardin examined modernisation, centre–periphery relations, ideology, civil society, religion, and the social circulation of ideas in Ottoman and modern Turkey.

Cemil Meriç examined language, concepts, ideology, cultural alienation, East and West, umran, irfan, translation, and intellectual independence in modern Turkish thought.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Louis Althusser’s late philosophy. The image represents history as an open field of material encounters rather than a process governed by a predetermined end. It relates to aleatory materialism, contingency, the void, the conjuncture, political intervention, reproduction, and the formation of structures that retrospectively appear necessary.