caa a22 4500 38806630X CHVBK 20180307125133.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0896634600006397 doi S0896634600006397 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0896634600006397 Köksal Duygu Atatürk Institute, Boğaziçi University The Dilemmas of a Search for Cultural Synthesis: A Portrait of Cemil Meriç as a Conservative Intellectual [Elektronische Daten] [Duygu Köksal] The altered psychological environment demanded a shift in emphasis from a pure critique of traditions to a critique of traditions coupled with a critique of modernity. Ashis Nandy, Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias Modern conservatism, at least in its philosophical form, is a child of what it attacks—modernity. If the central ethos of modernity is a belief in the plasticity of society and the individual, the central ethos of conservatism is a belief in the sanctity of community, kinship, tradition. Modernity's fascination with the new is matched by conservatism's defense of past tradition. It is on the priority of a past order bequeathed by history, and its traditional institutions, that the conservatives base their critique of modernity. The modernist idea that societies can be shaped, molded, and steered in new directions, and that individuals can direct their own destinies, finds its counterpart in conservative thought in the rediscovery of the past-its institutions, values, themes, structures. Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1999 New Perspectives on Turkey Cambridge University Press 21(1999), 79-101 0896-6346 21<79 1999 21 NPT https://doi.org/10.1017/S0896634600006397 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0896634600006397 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Köksal Duygu Atatürk Institute, Boğaziçi University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Perspectives on Turkey Cambridge University Press 21(1999), 79-101 0896-6346 21<79 1999 21 NPT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge