Browsing: Turkish intellectual history

Erol Güngör examined cultural change, nationalism, values, religion, modernisation, historical continuity, and the role of intellectuals through social psychology and social analysis.

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.

Ulus Baker connected sociology with affects, images, video, cinema, Spinoza, Deleuze, Tarde, social types, and a sustained critique of opinion-based social research.

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

Kaşgarlı Mahmud recorded Turkish vocabulary, dialects, oral culture, geography, and social memory, establishing one of the foundational works of Turkish linguistic and intellectual history.

Turkish philosophy and thought develop through language, early texts, Islamic traditions, Ottoman institutions, modernisation, academic philosophy, cultural criticism, and continuing conceptual production.