Islam and existentialism in Turkey during the Cold War in the works of Sezai Karakoç

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buir.contributor.authorÇitler, Gözde Damla
dc.citation.epage85en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage70en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber49en_US
dc.contributor.authorÇitler, Gözde Damla
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-25T08:32:05Z
dc.date.available2023-02-25T08:32:05Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-29
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractExistentialist thought has influenced arts and literature movements in Turkey starting from the early Cold War years. The Second New movement in Turkish poetry was able to distinguish itself as a literary movement by focusing on the constrained individual who lost their voice and autonomy in the repressive and polarized conditions of the Cold War. Sezai Karakoç (b. 1933) is a prominent Turkish and conservative-Muslim intellectual, and a poet of the Second New whose work shows the effects of existentialist philosophy and he uses existential notions to formulate a doctrine. With this doctrine and his unique perspective of what this article construes to be a part of the Islamic existentialism, Karakoç remains a pivotal figure in explaining existentialism’s influence in Turkish literature and politics from a religious standpoint. Although affected by the existentialist thought, Karakoç refuses Sartrean atheism or Camusian absurdism to understand the laws of existence, and ties both nature’s and human’s reason of existence to Allah with a fundamental belief maintains that everything is linked to Him. In doing so, he uses the notion of death as a transcendental experience for the human beings, which enriches life with an experiment that exceeds the boundaries of the physical rules.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13530194.2020.1758035en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1469-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/111718
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2020.1758035en_US
dc.source.titleBritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studiesen_US
dc.titleIslam and existentialism in Turkey during the Cold War in the works of Sezai Karakoçen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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