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THE POSITIVIST UNIVERSALISM AND REPUBLICANISM OF THE YOUNG TURKS*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2017

BANU TURNAOĞLU
BANU TURNAOĞLU*
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Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article explores positivist universalism, one of the central aspects of contemporary approaches in political theory, through the study of the Young Turks’ political thought. Current scholarship portrays the Young Turks as champions of a national cause, limited to overthrowing despotism and relaunching the Constitution of 1876 in the Ottoman Empire. This neglects their broader aim to guarantee peace, order, and progress, both at home and abroad, by adopting Comtean universal positivism, and it distorts their vision of society, politics, and history. From their base in Paris the Young Turks challenged the Eurocentric conception of universalism, suggesting a more egalitarian and comprehensive conception that has yet to be recognized. This article shows that, transcending the conventional boundaries between Western and non-Western political thought, the Young Turks’ political ideology presents an early example of the formation of a modern, pluralist worldview, and that their core conceptions had a deep impact on the founding of Turkish republicanism.

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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , November 2017 , pp. 777 - 805
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I would like to thank Professor John Dunn, Professor M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Dr Şuhnaz Yılmaz, and Dr Isabel DiVanna for their invaluable comments on this article; Fabio Boni and Anouk Bottero for their help with translating French texts; Selahattin Öztürk for his help with procuring the archival material and transcribing Ottoman texts; and the Modern Intellectual History editors and anonymous reviewers for their feedback.

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