Taner Timur examines Ottoman and Republican history through social structure, class, political institutions, ideology, identity, Marxism, modernisation, and the methodology of historiography.
A conceptual representation of the movement from direct historical narration through reflective reconstruction to the philosophical comprehension of historical Spirit.
A conceptual representation of Reason governing world history as the World Spirit advances through peoples, states, passions, and successive forms of freedom.
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.
