Varol Akman on the Turkish war against mediocrity and cliché

The Philosophers' Magazine 44:42-44 (2009)
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Abstract

“It’s so hard to be a saint in the city,” sings Bruce Springsteen in a ballad released 35 years ago. Judging from the national popular sentiment about the matter, he could have been talking about the complexity of being a philosopher in Turkey.

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