Title Atatürk : an intellectual biography / M. Şükrü Hanioğlu

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) : illustrations Contents Fin-de-siècle Salonica -- Das Volk in Waffen : the formation of an Ottoman officer -- The scientism of the Young Turks -- From wars to the Great War : a hero is born -- Muslim communism? : the Turkish War of Independence -- The secular republic -- Nationalism and Kemalism -- Turkey and the West Summary When Mustafa Kemal Atatrk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science - and by the personality cult Atatrk created around himself - would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the first in-depth look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder. In doing so, it frames him within the historical context of the turbulent age in which he lived, and explores the uneasy transition from the late Ottoman imperial order to the modern Turkish state through his life and ideas. Shedding light on one of the most complex and enigmatic statesmen of the modern era, M. Skr Hanioglu takes readers from Atatrk's youth as a Muslim boy in the volatile ethnic cauldron of Macedonia, to his education in nonreligious and military schools, to his embrace of Turkish nationalism and the modernizing Young Turks movement. Who was this figure who sought glory as an ambitious young officer in World War I, defied the victorious Allies intent on partitioning the Turkish heartland, and defeated the last sultan? Hanioglu charts Atatrk's intellectual and ideological development at every stage of his life, demonstrating how he was profoundly influenced by the new ideas that were circulating in the sprawling Ottoman realm. He shows how Atatrk drew on a unique mix of scientism, materialism, social Darwinism, positivism, and other theories to fashion a grand utopian framework on which to build his new nation. -- Publisher description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index Notes Print version record Subject Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 -- Political and social views Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 -- Knowledge and learning SUBJECT Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 -- Knowledge and learning Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 -- Political and social views Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938 fast Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal 1881-1938 gnd Subject Social change -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Middle East -- Turkey & Ottoman Empire. Intellectual life Learning and scholarship Political and social views Politics and government Social change Social conditions SUBJECT Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138848 Turkey -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Turkey -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Turkey Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400838172 1400838177 9781400885572 1400885574

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