TEVFİK FİKRET’S PERCEPTION OF CIVILISATION SETTING OUT FROM THE POEM “PROMETE”
PROMETE ŞİİRİNDEN HAREKETLE TEVFİK FİKRET’İN MEDENİYET ALGISI

Author : Mehmet YILMAZ
Number of pages : 106-115

Abstract

To become civilized was introduced as a solution of underdevelopment of the state and the social instutions since “Reform Era.” But, different meanings attributed to the concept of civilisation; includes serious hesitations on whether this word is properly understood or not. To become civilised, to become modern as a rescue project, often used as synonyms with modernism and served as a basis for becoming westernized become widespread on social plan. Especially with the Constitutional Monarch the second becoming modern was synonyms with becoming westernized. In this work, how Tevfik Fikret approached the concept of civilisation related to the different meanings attributed to it in the history of Turkish Intellectual . What is desired to accomplish in the evaluation of the Fikret’s perception of civilisation setting out from the poem of “Promete” is to hold a mirror though partially, to the mentality of becoming civilized of the intellectuals of constituonal Monarch Era.

Keywords

Civilization, modernism, westernized to,

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