The Time Regulation Institute is a satirical allegory of how Turkish modernization project is perceived by Turkish society in the first half of the twentieth century The obsession for modernization yields only a weak result: The Time Regulation Institute A shallow understanding of Western institutions thought and scholarship and the pathological amnesia of the society towards their cultural heritage are some of the factors which make The Time Regulation Institute possible These factors are also the reasons why Turkey has long been surpassed by the Western countries In that context this study aims to locate the central theme of The Time Regulation Institute through a close reading of the text discussing the binary oppositions the formation of the main characters and allegorical institutions like the Society of Spiritism and the Time Regulation Institute Keywords: The Time Regulation Institute Turkish modernization social ethics work and ethics binary opposition
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