The Turkish Connection. Global Intellectual Histories of the Late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey

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Covering a rich array of global aspects, ranging from individuals as ideational entrepreneurs to transnational intellectual trajectories, this volume deals with multiple dimensions of global and transnational backgrounds pertaining to Turkey’s intellectual history, starting with the 19th and reaching the 21st-century. The book engages with the late Ottoman and republican Turkish periods through topics such as the transnational processes that contributed to the development of modern Turkish philosophy, the Bosnian and Bulgarian intellectuals at the end times of the Ottoman imperial order, Wilsonianism’s impact, the role of Westerners in promoting Ottoman political agendas, the global connections and ramifi cations of Turkish Islamism as well as Turkish anticlericalism and leftism. The aim is to globalize late Ottoman and republican Turkish intellectual histories by presenting distinct frameworks for advancing the Global Intellectual History agenda in this distinct setting. Table of Contents Introduction Section I. Inside Out: Global Intellectual Trajectories of the Ottomans Chapter 1 Bosnia’s “Young Turks”: The Bosnian Muslim Intelligentsia in its Late Ottoman Context, 1878–1914 Chapter 2 Between Constitution, Empire, and Nation: An Intellectual Trajectory of Pancho Dorev and his Legalist Paradigm Chapter 3 Deconstructing ‘Orientalism’ at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition: Esmeralda Cervantes, Sultan Abdulhamid II and the “Address on the Education and Literature of the Women of Turkey” Section II. From Empire to Republic: The Transformation of Intellectual Dispositions in Republican Turkey Chapter 4 Ottoman-Turkish Thought from a Global Intellectual History Perspective: An Analysis of Disenchantment from Positivism and Engagement with Bergsonian Intuitionism Chapter 5 Between French Culture and German Geist – The Transnational Constitutions of Turkish Academic Philosophy Chapter 6 Globalizing Turkey’s Intellectual Histories Section III. Interaction with the Global: Formation and Propagation of Ideas and Ideologies in Turkey Chapter 7 The Wilsonian Ideas of the Ottoman Turkish Intelligentsia in Post-World War I Turkey Chapter 8 Turkish Anticlericalism, Republicanism, and the Left: Intersections and Departures Chapter 9 Global Intellectual Transfers and the Making of Turkish High Islamism, c. 1960–1995 Conclusion Index List of Contributors