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Rethinking Utopia
Rethinking Utopia is a collection that discusses utopian thinking in relation to different philosophical themes. It seeks utopianism in political theory (particularly in Kant and Derrida), populism, Turkish Islamism, international law, and it fleshes out themes of modernism and classless society in the selected utopian examples. By discussing and showing the relationship between utopia and these topics, the book shows that the range of subjects related to utopias is wider than the current literature suggests. The book attempts to bring together academic fields, which are not cross-fertilized in the existing debates on utopia, by building bridges between actual politics and futuristic visions. On the one hand, it looks at utopia as a means to think about and reconfigure contemporary politics (as in the case of international law and populist politics); on the other hand, it investigates how different philosophical/literary texts, from widely-known More and Le Guin to lesser-known Turkish Islamists Kısakürek, Karakoç and Özel, imagine their distinct utopian vision where a new form of anarchist, classless or Islamist society could be possible.
Boosting Competitiveness Through Decentralization
Decentralization is accepted as one of the defining features of the third wave of democratic transitions in Latin America and commonly understood as an index and an agent of democratization. This rather optimistic perspective is inherent in the literature which is dominated by two theories. The liberal-individualist approach, especially as advocated by the World Bank, promotes decentralization policies on the premise of their efficiency, equity, and responsiveness to local demands. Similarly, the statist approach claims that decentralization can be the route to greater accountability, transparency and participation in governance; they add that this path should be guided by political elites a...
Nation-Building and Turkish Modernization
This book evaluates the Turkish nation-building process from the Ottoman Empire to today, considering the role of Islam in this process. It gives insight into what has changed and not changed in this process. The book explains to readers that the Islamisation of the country is not a coincidence. Rather, Islamism has been grown symbiotically with the secular Republican regime through the organizational power of Islamic sects and with the assistance of the West. How we live as a nation today is not a revolution of Islamists, as some scholars have remarked. Rather, it is a continuation of the Turkish nation-building process with further Islamisation.
Memory and Political Art in Plato’s Statesman
In Memory and the Political Art in Plato’s Statesman, Catherine Craig provides an original reading of Plato’s Statesman by bringing memory to the foreground. The dialogue itself explores various components of political memory, such as common speech, myths, and laws, and argues that these create a framework in which we live our political lives. Each of these aspects of political memory serves as an image to move the individual to rational inquiry. In this way, the dialogue suggests that political memory can serve as a starting point for philosophic recollection, allowing for a move from knowledge of the rational soul to first principles. Craig shows how Plato weaves together the personal, political, and philosophic dimensions of memory, providing a richer understanding of the significance of memory for political life. Beyond providing an analysis of the Statesman, this book helps readers consider the challenges of political memory in contemporary political life, while also arguing that memory mediates between universal, rational principles and the particular ends and circumstances of human life.
Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education
The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity. Does the First Amendment apply on campuses and do its principles clarify or obscure the issues surrounding campus speech? What, after all, is the basis for those principles, and how do they relate to the purposes of the university? Is free speech truly effective without a diversity of perspectives, and to what extent is such diversity found at universities today? Does free speech discourage the inclusion of minorities or previously excluded groups? Are there specific policies that can address the issue of free speech on campuses today in ways that are fair to all parties and to the interests at stake?
Regimes of Terror and Memory
This book compares genocidal and other regimes of terror with Nazi Germany’s Holocaust regime. Yet the author’s interest extends to the question how societies have dealt with their respective records of evil.
Character in the American Experience
"Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People tells the story of the American character, from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister detail how great events and daily life have both shaped and been shaped by a people committed to order and independence, community and conflict, as well as the triumphs and tragedies American unruliness produced"--
Siyaset Bilimi
Siyaset Bilimi alanında nitelikli, kapsamlı ve güncel Türkçe giriş kitapları konusunda bir boşluk olduğu ortada. Siyaset Bilimi: Kavramlar, İdeolojiler, Disiplinler Arası İlişkiler, işte bu boşluğu kapatmaya çalışıyor. Büyük çoğunluğu Türkiye ve dünyanın köklü üniversitelerinde bulunan 35 yazarın yazdığı toplam üç kısım ve 40 bölümden oluşuyor. Birinci kısım, “Siyaset Biliminde Temel Kavramlar” başlığını taşıyor. Siyaset, iktidar gibi daha genel nitelikli kavramlardan kimlik ve hegemonya gibi daha özel kavramlara uzanan bu kısımda kitap, siyaset bilimi disiplininin temel kavramsal gereçlerini okuyucuya tanıtıyor. İkinci kısımda ...
Osmanlı'dan Günümüze Türkiye'de Siyasal Hayat
Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Türkiye’de Siyasal Hayat’ı kendi kulvarındaki öteki kitaplardan ayıran başlıca özellik, “siyasal hayat”ı kavrayış biçiminde yatıyor. Siyasal hayatı, dünya-tarihsel bağlamı içine yerleştirerek, iktisadi koşullar ve kültür hayatıyla ilişkilendirerek ele alan kitap, bunların tümünün gerisindeki dinamiğin toplumsal sınıflar arasındaki ilişkiler ve çelişkiler olduğunu gözetiyor. Türkiye siyasal ve toplumsal tarihinin önemli dönemeçlerine göre ayrılan her bir bölüm kendi içerisinde dört aşamalı bir izleği takip ediyor: iktisadi ve toplumsal koşullar, siyasal gelişmeler, dünyayla ilişkiler ve kültür hayatınd...
Class, Capital, State, and Late Development
In Class, Capital, State, and Late Development: The Political Economy of Military Interventions in Turkey, Gönenç Uysal discusses state-military-society relations in Turkey from the late Ottoman era to today by exploring state-class-capital relations under the dynamics of uneven development. Uysal approaches Turkey as a late-developing social formation characterised by unevenness and dependency, arising from the contradictions of capitalist relations of production and integration with the world capitalist system. By drawing upon historical materialism/Marxism, Uysal offers a critical/radical understanding of (re)organisation of the state and military interventions in politics in peripheries of global capitalism.
