Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Introduction / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Between Two Worlds: Ideas in the Making / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Return to the Near East / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Rights, Religion and Nationalism / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Founding the Republic / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Revolution and Ideology / H. Ozan Özavcı -- State, Society and the Individual / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Westernisation and Nationalism / H. Ozan Özavcı -- The Moral Ideology of the Republic / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Conclusion: The Road to Liberty? / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Bibliography / H. Ozan Özavcı -- Index / H. Ozan Özavcı.

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Few studies tracing the history of liberalism have taken into account that its reception in non-Western or westernising countries, in the form of the denial or acceptance of its core values and institutions, is an important aspect of the liberal tradition. In Intellectual Origins of the Republic: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the Genealogy of Liberalism in Turkey , Ӧzavcı investigates the histories of liberalism and nationalism in the late Russian and Ottoman Empires and early Republican Turkey through the prism of the life, ideas and times of the revolutionary writer Ahmet Ağaoğlu. This is the first in-depth study in the English language that places under scrutiny the Turkish idea of liberty and its endless yet destructive flirt with nationalism.