At the end of this course:
- The students will comprehend the politically significant intellectual currents in the late Ottoman and early republican periods.
- The student will comprehend the introduction of the Enlightenment ideals into the Turkish society and politics during the late Ottoman period.
- The student will trace the continuities and breakdowns in Turkish intellectual history.
- The student will become familiar with outstanding Ottoman and Turkish intellectuals.
- The student will grasp the ideological currents influencing the formation of the modern Turkish nation.
- The student will make sense of the concepts of modernity, society, westernization, populism, conservatism, statism, and ideologies of domination in the Turkish context.