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Title: The Afterlife of Critique: The Communicability of Criticism and the Publicity of Polemic Concerning Public Debate in the Turkish Press
Authors: Gürsoy, A. Özgür
Karanfil, Y Gökçen
Keywords: critique
polemic
Turkish press
Kant
communicability
publicity
Publisher: Usc Annenberg Press
Abstract: The philosophical activity of critique is intimately connected with the mundane activity of public criticism that takes place in newspapers. Drawing on the Kantian tradition of critical philosophy, we argue that four axes, namely, self-examination, liminal interrogation, concern with legitimacy, and the requirement of communicability, are implied by critical discourse and public debate. We then examine a recent set of polemics (between Doan Akin, Ali BayramoOlu, and Etyen Mahgupyan) in the Turkish press with the aid of these axes as well as techniques for the analysis of informal reasoning to determine what critical function such polemics may have. We conclude that critique survives as polemic in the Turkish press, but in such a way that the latter's publicity vitiates the former's communicability. The result is that polemics ultimately track the balance of power between social forces rather than being a transformative element within them.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14365/3102
ISSN: 1932-8036
Appears in Collections:Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection
WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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