Cemil Meriç ile Ümit Meriç’in Düşünce Dünyalarının Etkileşimleri, Dönüşümleri ve Farklılaşmaları Üzerine bir İnceleme
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2021
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Ömrünü düşünceye adayan her insan, dünyanın düşünce birikimini zenginleştirir. Entelektüelin ürettiği
duygu ve düşünceler, onunla doğrudan iletişim ve ilişkide olan çevresindeki insanlardan başlar, yazılarını ve
eserlerini okuyan, konuşmalarını dinleyen, fikirlerini inceleyen herkese ulaşır. 38 yaşında âmâ olan Cemil
Meriç’in (1916-1987), kitapları okuyabilmek için yardımcıya ihtiyaç duyduğu ömrünün kalan döneminde, bu
hizmeti en fazla yürüten isim kuşkusuz kızı Ümit Meriç’tir (d.1946). Entelektüel Cemil Meriç’in 71 yıllık
ömründe, kızı, öğrencisi, asistanı, fikirdaşı ve yoldaşı olan, bu görevini özellikle babası âmâ olduktan sonra
33 yıl kesintisiz olarak yıllarını adayan bir sorumluluk ve ciddiyet ile gerçekleştiren kızı Ümit Meriç’in
babasından aldığı entelektüel miras nedir? Ümit Meriç ile Cemil Meriç’in düşünce dünyalarının etkileşimleri,
dönüşümleri ve farklılaşmaları nelerdir, nasıl tanımlanabilir, bu düşünsel ilişki hangi yönelimleri
göstermiştir? Cemil Meriç’in 71 yıllık, Ümit Meriç’in bugün 75 yılı bulan verimli ömürlerinin entelektüel
boyutlarını belli başlı bazı izlekler üzerinden tanımlamak, tasniflemek, ilişkilendirmek ve açıklamak
mümkündür. Bunlar, entelektüel hayatlarının filizlendiği ortamlar, bulundukları düşünce dünyaları ve
ilerleyişleri, Doğu ve Batı düşüncesine yaklaşımları, milliyetçilik ve din karşısındaki tavırları olmak üzere
dört boyutta değerlendirilebilir. 33 yıl, neredeyse kesintisiz bir entelektüel yolculuk içinde olan baba-kız
etkileşimleri ile düşünsel olgunluk örneği verirler. Hayatları boyunca öğrenmeyi ve öğretmeyi kendilerine
ilke edinmiş Cemil Meriç ile Ümit Meriç’in düşünce dünyalarının karşılaştırmalı incelemesi, Türkiye’nin
XX. yüzyılına ait düşünce tarihinin ana izleklerini ortaya koyar. Bu karşılaştırma, aynı zamanda birlikte
okuyan, düşünen ve yazan iki insanın entelektüel bağını fikirler ekseninde anlamlandırır ve nihayetinde
babadan kızına aktarılan entelektüel mirasın çok yönlü bir haritasını verir.
Every person who dedicates his/her life to thinking enriches the world’s thinking. The feelings and thoughts produced by the intellectual start from the people around his/her who are in direct communication and relationship with his/her, and reach everyone who reads his/her writings and works, listens to his/her speeches, and examines his/her ideas. In the rest of his life, when Cemil Meriç (1916-1987), who was blind at the age of 38, needed a helper to read books, the person who carried out this service the most was undoubtedly his daughter Ümit Meriç (b.1946). The intellectual Cemil Meriç’s daughter Ümit Meriç is also his student, assistant, collaborator and comrade in his 71-year life, and performed this duty with a responsibility and seriousness, especially after his father blind for 33 years uninterruptedly. Our question is this: What is the intellectual legacy that Ümit Meriç received from his father? What are the interactions, transformations and differentiations of the worlds of thought of Ümit Meriç and Cemil Meriç, how can they be defined, what orientations did this intellectual relationship show? It is possible to define, classify, relate and explain the intellectual dimensions of Cemil Meriç’s 71-year and Ümit Meriç’s 75-year productive life through certain themes. These can be evaluated in four dimensions: the environments in which their intellectual lives sprout, their world of thought and progress, their approach to Eastern and Western thought, their attitudes towards nationalism and religion. Comparative evaluation of the worlds of thought of Cemil Meriç and Ümit Meriç, who adopted learning and teaching as a principle throughout their lives, reveals the main themes of the history of Turkey’s thought of the 20th century. This comparison also makes sense of the intellectual bond between two person, who read, think and write together, on the axis of ideas, and ultimately gives a multifaceted map of the intellectual legacy that is passed on from father to daughter
Every person who dedicates his/her life to thinking enriches the world’s thinking. The feelings and thoughts produced by the intellectual start from the people around his/her who are in direct communication and relationship with his/her, and reach everyone who reads his/her writings and works, listens to his/her speeches, and examines his/her ideas. In the rest of his life, when Cemil Meriç (1916-1987), who was blind at the age of 38, needed a helper to read books, the person who carried out this service the most was undoubtedly his daughter Ümit Meriç (b.1946). The intellectual Cemil Meriç’s daughter Ümit Meriç is also his student, assistant, collaborator and comrade in his 71-year life, and performed this duty with a responsibility and seriousness, especially after his father blind for 33 years uninterruptedly. Our question is this: What is the intellectual legacy that Ümit Meriç received from his father? What are the interactions, transformations and differentiations of the worlds of thought of Ümit Meriç and Cemil Meriç, how can they be defined, what orientations did this intellectual relationship show? It is possible to define, classify, relate and explain the intellectual dimensions of Cemil Meriç’s 71-year and Ümit Meriç’s 75-year productive life through certain themes. These can be evaluated in four dimensions: the environments in which their intellectual lives sprout, their world of thought and progress, their approach to Eastern and Western thought, their attitudes towards nationalism and religion. Comparative evaluation of the worlds of thought of Cemil Meriç and Ümit Meriç, who adopted learning and teaching as a principle throughout their lives, reveals the main themes of the history of Turkey’s thought of the 20th century. This comparison also makes sense of the intellectual bond between two person, who read, think and write together, on the axis of ideas, and ultimately gives a multifaceted map of the intellectual legacy that is passed on from father to daughter
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Beşeri Bilimler, Edebi Teori Ve Eleştiri, Edebiyat, Tarih
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Turkish Studies - Social Sciences
Volume
16
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5
Start Page
1735
End Page
1750
