Defter Dergisi ve Türkiye düşünce yaşamındaki yeri: Modernizm-postmodernizm tartışması örneği
Özet
The subject of this thesis is Defter, the review, which was published between 1987 and 2002 during fifteen years with totally 45 issues that put the cultural climate of 1980s and 1990s, an evaluation of history of modernization in Turkey in the context of art and debates on central currents of thought and art to the agenda of thought and the trilateral assesment of the review in the context of review publishing, intellectuals and intellectual milieu in Turkey. The investigation is limited with the debates on modernism-postmodernism which was intensely put on the agenda of thought, during the years the review was published. The aim of the thesis is betraying the role of the rewiev and the intellectual circle that composed it through displaying the form in which these debates took place generally in Turkey and specifically in Defter.The first chapter of the thesis gives place to the outstanding reviews and the cultural and intellectual milieu in which they were published. The second part of the chapter is reserved for Defter in general. The second chapter takes the debates on modernism-postmodernism as a case and attempts to display the place of Defter in intelectual life in Turkey through this case. In the second chapter the discussion of the subject is presented through various examples firstly in general and then in Turkey; at the end of the chapter the relevant essays published in Defter are analysed. This study is an attempt to add a step in the context of modernism-postmodernism debates as a specific subject to the initial steps devoted to position Defter in the intellectual life in Turkey.