In the history of thought, İsmail Beşikci is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists İsmail Beşikci as Turkish sociologist (born 1939).
İsmail Beşikci was born at İskilip in 1939. His recorded nationality is Turkey. He studied at Ankara University Faculty of Political Science.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from Turkey matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
