Türkiye'de 1930-1940 yılları arasında seçkinci söylemin oluşumu: Falih Rıfkı Atay ve Peyami Safa, karşılaştırmalı bir analiz
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2007
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Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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This study aims to discover the construction of the elitist discourse in Turkey, between 1930 and 1940 by focusing on the works of Peyami Safa and Falih Rıfkı Atay. The central theme of the study is ?discoursive construction of the people? in the texts of these authors. This central theme is studied in relation with the discourses on modernisation/civilization, and the cultural and ethical values that represent the conceptualisation of the ?nation? and the imaginative construction of the ?unity of the people?. Within the articulations in both these levels people is looked upon as a unity purifiying it from its heterogeneous aspects. The basic argument of the elitist discourse is the claim that the society must be guided/governed by those who are competent. This argument is built on certain contradictions as ?rulers-subordinates?, ?people-state?, ?elits and masses?. Having political competence and knowledge gives a superior position to the political elits and shapes the perceptions of political participation. . Essentially popular discourse must be a totality of the articulation of hetoregeneous demmands of individuals that form the ?people?. This study displayed that in the discourse of the two authors analysed, ?people? is the concept to signify the social and political unity, a homogeneous entitiy without any differences. The authors that construct this unity in their texts also claimed that the people don?t acquire the competence for politics andthey do need the state?s control and guidence. Thus, both Safa and Atay?s retorical discussions on the public reproduces the elitist discourse of their period.
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Türkiye siyaseti, seçkinci söylem, halk, halkçı söylem, modernlesme/medenilesme, ulusal birlik, siyasal katılım, yurttas, köylü