On the Edge of Conservatism a Kemalist Assessment: “Views Into Turkish Revolution” Cover Image

Muhafa Zakârliğin Kiyisinda Bir Kemalizm Değerlendirmesi: “Türk İnkilâ Bina Bakişlar”
On the Edge of Conservatism a Kemalist Assessment: “Views Into Turkish Revolution”

Author(s): Yaşar Özkandaş
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Atatürk; Enlightenment; Westernization; Republican Conservatism; Revolution; Tradition; Kemalism; Turkish Revolution;

Summary/Abstract: Peyami Safa is the leading philosopher who left greatmarks on Turkish idea. In 1930’s when Kemalist revolution changed the society radically in the political, economic and social aspects; Safa was in struggle for understanding and describing the philosophy that rested on the basis of those changes. His approach in this period, in which he tried to make sense of Kemalist revolution with his own point of view is dualist. Peyami Safa both sincerely adopted Kemalist revolution’s fitting the nation into the basis of political legitimacy and its enlightened quality for raising individuals that do research with a scientific method, question and criticise, and, in the depht of history, looked, with a conservative concern, for the roots of this new political and social structure that Kemalist revolution vivified.

  • Issue Year: 22/2016
  • Issue No: 88
  • Page Range: 205-216
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish