Bergson and Politics
Ottoman-Turkish Encounters with Innovation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4899009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nazım Irem (Dokuz Eylül University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 873-882 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2011.626187 |
| OpenAlex | W2100951328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article seeks to explain how Bergson's philosophy was translated into a genuine political position in the Ottoman-Turkish context. I first overview the impact of Bergson's philosophy on continental politics at the beginning of the twentieth century; I then try to explain how Bergson's philosophical claims acquired definite political connotations; and lastly, I aim to display how political Bergsonism became a border language between republican radicals and conservatives in Turkey in the 1920s. I argue that, at the crossroads of all currents of European modernity, political Bergsonism heralded the birth of a new vision of conservative modernity that molded the underlying values and principles of the transformation of Turkey into a modern society
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Modernity · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · History · Law · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |