Problematization of Politics From a Töreli̇ (Normative) Perspective as an Effort to Go Beyond Western and Eastern Essentialist Understandings of Politics
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Çark,
Ö.
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Uçgan,
N.
(eds.)
2025.
Interdisciplinary Töreli Scientific Studies I.
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This study draws conclusions about what the political is by drawing on different perspectives regarding the definition of politics. It has become quite difficult to define politics using the West's established toolkit today. This is because the order created by the West has collapsed. Explaining politics within the context of "order" is no longer possible with this established toolkit. This study aims to pose a problem regarding what politics and the political are, rather than to offer a new definition of politics. Politics itself is criticized from an internal perspective. It then attempts to develop a critical perspective on the political, incorporating political economy into the political, drawing particularly on the views of Ibn Khaldun. Politics today cannot be understood without questioning the political economy in terms of the legitimacy of power, authority, and order. Instead of fixing the quest for politics at a specific point, the changing aspects from the past to the present constitute the focus of this study.
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