Lexington Books
Pages: 186
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-9131-6 • Hardback • September 2015 • $102.00 • (£78.00)
978-0-7391-9132-3 • eBook • September 2015 • $96.50 • (£74.00)
Şakir Dinçşahin is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Yeditepe University.
Chapter 1: The Environment and Early Influences Shaping the Political Ideas of Niyazi Berkes in British Cyprus, 1908–1922
Chapter 2: The Education and Early Career of Niyazi Berkes during the Construction of Kemalist State and Ideology, 1922–1933
Chapter 3: Kemalist University Reform, the Great Depression, and the Graduate Education of Niyazi Berkes, 1933–1939
Chapter 4: Niyazi Berkes’s Role in Power Struggles of the Post-Atatürk Period, 1939–1945
Chapter 5: The Ankara University Unrest and the Construction of Right-Wing Ideology in Turkey, 1945–1950
Chapter 6: Niyazi Berkes’s Contributions to Islamic Studies: The Development of Secularism in Turkey, 1950–1960
Chapter 7: The 1960 Coup d’état and Niyazi Berkes’s Formative Kemalist Contributions to the Turkish Left, 1960–1988
This useful new book uses the life of Turkish intellectual Niyazi Berkes as a window to explore the turbulent times through which he lived. The author Şakir Dinçşahin . . . has written a volume full of details that enrich our understanding of the period. . . .Dinçşahin’s book shows that it [Berkes' life] is a good prism through which to consider important questions of 20th century Turkey.
— Hurriyet Daily News
This is a fascinating book, which informs the reader about the changing nature of state ideology in Turkey and its impact on the life and works of a Turkish scholar, Niyazi Berkes. It allows for better and more informed debates on the place of Nazism, socialism, and liberalism in the intellectual history of Turkey. The arguments and analyses presented in this work are genuinely original based on primary and secondary sources in English and Turkish and it appeals to a wide range of scholars, students, and general readers who are interested in Turkish Politics, Islamic Studies, and Middle Eastern politics.
— Ahmet N. Yücekök, Ankara University
The book can equally be read by experts and undergraduate students, as well as by those who are interested in Turkish history, and still learn a lot from it. The book is informative, and its well-researched material will provide a useful tool for all interested readers in Turkish political history, European history, and also intellectual history. . . . State and Intellectuals in Turkeyis a noteworthy contribution in the field of Turkish Studies, as being the first study that takes up the life of one of the most famous intellectuals of Turkey, it fills a clear gap in the literature. Furthermore, the study can be read in various ways, perhaps the most significant of these being the focus on one important individual’s life and how political developments in Turkey so deeply shaped his personality and ideas. Finally, it is a well-written study with a structure that challenges the reader without losing her interest in the subject.
— Nations and Nationalism
This is a fascinating book, which informs the reader about the changing nature of state ideology in Turkey and its impact on the life and works of a Turkish scholar, Niyazi Berkes. It allows for better and more informed debates on the place of Nazism, socialism, and liberalism in the intellectual history of Turkey. The arguments and analyses presented in this work are genuinely original based on primary and secondary sources in English and Turkish and it appeals to a wide range of scholars, students, and general readers who are interested in Turkish Politics, Islamic Studies, and Middle Eastern politics.
— Ahmet N. Yücekök, Ankara University
This original and intellectually interesting volume focuses on an academic and intellectual who suffered from the authoritarian policies of the single party regime in Turkey as part of its Cold War politics of anti-communism resulting in his firing from his post at Ankara University. The book is a valuable source for both undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars studying Middle Eastern politics, Islamic studies, and Turkish politics in departments of history, political science, and sociology. It would also be of interest for the general reader willing to learn more about Turkish intellectual history.
— Umut Uzer, Istanbul Technical University