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Author:   Ayse Ozge Kocak Hemmat
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Edition:   XII, 190pp. ed.
Volume:   91
Weight:   0.456kg
ISBN:  

9789004366039

ISBN 10:   9004366032
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   14 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction 1 The Rationality of Turkish Modernity  1 Appropriating Rationality  2 Military Reforms and Intellectual Concerns  3 Scientistic Rationality  4 Rational Nationhood 2 Reason Demands Rational Novels  Discourse on the Novel 3 Araba Sevdasi—a Novel of Bad Education and Civilized Monsters  1 Books and Follies: Bihruz Bey’s Misadventures in Reading  2 Between Divertissement and Travail—or, How to Approach the Novel  3 Çamlica Garden: Irrational Uses of Rational Spaces 4 Yaban: Inventing the Adversary in Irrational Provinces  1 Confronting the Peasant: Noble Savage or Beast?  2 Parade of Beasts against the Humanist  3 Object of an Idea, or the Truth of the Peasant 5 The Past as an Object: Orientalist Fantasies of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar  1 Objectifying the Past: Orientalist Aestheticization of Culture  2 Continuing a Tradition and Confining the Past  3 Where to Find Peace of Mind: Huzur as a Novel of Ottoman Fantasies   3.1 Between Nuran and Ihsan—Sacred Light and Secular Beneficence   3.2 Not an Odalisque from a Matisse Painting  4 Eliminating the Past and Resetting the Clocks in Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü 6 Reason’s Quarrel with Totalizing Rationality in Oguz Atay  1 Reason versus Totalizing Rationality  2 Butchering and Philosophy: How Rationality Mutilates Reason  3 Pure Reason’s Union with Naïve Reason Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat, Ph.D., Northwestern University, is an independent scholar and project manager. She has published in the journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, as well as contributing to the Dictionary of Literary Biography series.

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