As one of the main characteristics of the Romantic period, appreciation and glorification of nature is a key issue in William Wordsworth’s poetry, as well as a sense of return and longing for their own childhood. If there is a question of rationality in his arguments, the questions is how much does he go against [...]

A discussion of the Enlightenment and the transformations in the Turkish culture as a result of this trend requires us to look into the 18th century Enlightenment in Europe, the 19th century Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic afterwards in the 20th and 21st centuries, and deal with the cause-and-result relationships between the periods together [...]

Jean François Lyotard, a French philosopher living between 1924 and 1998, is one of the fathers of postmodern philosophy. He defined the time after modernism as postmodern condition. Modernism is closely associated with the Age of Enlightenment, which started the industrialized time. Before dealing with postmodern philosophy, we need to know how modernism is defined [...]