Learned patriots debating science, state, and society in the nineteenth- century Ottoman Empire
The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the "Great Powers" of Europe. This book examines what it meant for nineteenth-century Ottoman elites themselves to have a debate about science...
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University of Chicago Press
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- A new type of knowledge for a new social group
- Speakers, institutions, discourses of science in a new regime
- Consolidation of the discourse: science, state, and virtue in the 1860s
- Expansion and challenge: young Ottomans, new alternatives
- Debating science in the late Tanzimat era: themes and positions
- Inventing the "confused youth": science, community, and morality in the 1880s
- Science and morality at the end of the nineteenth century
- Conclusion