Türk Düşünce Dünyasında Cemil Meriç ve Eserleri

Year 2008, Issue: 11, 529 - 574, 01.05.2008

Cengiz Sunay

Abstract

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Keywords

Sol, Sağ, Aydın, Entelektüel, Doğu, Batı, İdeoloji, Harf İnkılâbı, Türk Sosyolojisi, Marx

Cemil Meriç and His Works in Modern Turkish Thought

Abstract

Cemil Meriç (1916–1987) was one the leading Turkish thinkers of modern era. Meriç was a
profoundly original thinker who authored numerous books as well as translated many
works to Turkish. He devoted his life to an unending quest for learning, teaching and thinking.
Although he suffered from blindness in the last thirty two years of his life, he deeply
influenced modern Turkish thought through his efforts of establishing a bridge between
Western and Eastern thoughts. This study examines Cemil Meriç around five major points.
Firstly, this article will try to examine the extraordinary life of Cemil Meriç, which definitely
left its mark on his intellectual maturation. Secondly, an effort will be made to analyze the
emotional world of Meriç through his writings. In the third part, we will try to look at Cemil
Meriç’s style of writing and his devotion to Turkish language visàvis the ever lasting debate
of style and language in Turkish thought. The fourth part will focus on Meriç’s world
of thought while the last part will be on his place in Turkish sociology by examining the sociology
lectures he gave in Istanbul University as well as his famous book on French thinker
Saint Simon.

Keywords

Political Left, Political Right, Intellectual, Ideology, the West, the East, the Turkish Language Revolution, Turkish Sociology, Marx

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