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Title Humanism in ruins : entangled legacies of the Greek-Turkish population exchange / Aslı Iğsız.
Author Iğsız, Aslı, 1971- author.
Publisher Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Copyright ©2018


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Description x, 332 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN 9781503606869 paperback : alkaline paper
9781503606357 cloth : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents By way of an introduction: the entangled legacies of a population exchange -- Part I: Humanism and its discontents: biopolitics, politics of expertise, and the human family. Segregative biopolitics and the production of knowledge -- Liberal humanism, race, and the family of mankind -- Part II: Of origins and "men": family history, genealogy, and historicist humanism revisited. Heritage and family history -- Origins, biopolitics, and historicist humanism -- Part III: Unity in diversity: culture, social cohesion, and liberal multiculturalism. The museumization of culture and the recognition of alterity -- Turkish-Islamic synthesis and coexistence after the 1980 military coup -- In lieu of a conclusion: cultural analysis in an age of securitarianism.
Library Class History QT410
Subject Population transfers -- Turks -- History -- 20th century.
Population transfers -- Greeks -- History -- 20th century.
Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Turkey.
Multiculturalism -- Turkey.
Humanism -- History -- 20th century.
Biopolitics -- History -- 20th century.
Turkey -- Cultural policy.
Turkey -- Politics and government.

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