TÜRKİYE’DE SOSYAL DÜŞÜNCENİN ERKEN DÖNEM TEMSİLCİSİ OLARAK AHMET MİTHAT EFENDİ
AHMET MITHAT EFENDI AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE EARLY SOCIAL THOUGHT IN TURKEY

Summary/Abstract: In this article it is aimed to provide an intellectual portrait of Ahmet Mithat Efendi who is one of the leading thinkers of the Tanzimat Period as an author, novelist, journalist and publisher. His attitude in the face of politic, cultural and social changes and tensions which came along with the period characterized by modernization/Westernization efforts is evaluated on the basis of its being of a founding component of the portrait in question. As a result of these evaluations, it is dwelt upon the extent of assessing Ahmet Mithat as a representative of a social analysis initiative that enables to address him in his originality.

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