Ali Mirsepassi

Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the life and thought of the Iranian philosopher Ahmad Fardid and the development of political philosophy in post-revolutionary Iran.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9781107187290
• ISBN-10: 110718729X
• Artikelnr.: 47151297

Autorenporträt

Ali Mirsepassi is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, where he is also the Director of Iranian Studies Initiative. He is the co-author, with Tadd Fernee, of Islam, Democracy and Cosmopolitanism: At Home and in the World (Cambridge, 2014), and the author of Political Islam, Iran and Enlightenment: Philosophies of Hope and Despair (Cambridge, 2011), Democracy in Modern Iran (2010) and Intellectual Discourses and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: Introduction. Islam after fall: why Fardid matters;
1. The historical context: the intellectual's modern calling; 2. 'Home' and
the 'world': 'the swallows return to their nest'; Part II. The World of
Young Fardid: 3. Young Fardid (1935-46); 4. Henry Corbin's 'imaginative
spirituality' and Iranian 'Gharbzadegi' (Westoxication); Part III.
Orientatlism and 'Spiritual Islam': Fardid, Corbin, Foucault: 5.
Gharbzadegi (Westoxication); 6. The politics of spirituality: Foucault, the
Iranian Revolution; Part IV. Ahmad Fardid's Philosophy after the
Revolution, 1978-81: 7. The divine encounter and apocalyptic revelations;
8. A reckless mind: policies of Gharbzadegi; Part V. Fardid Remembered: 9.
Interviews with Fardid's friends and critics; Conclusion. Fardid after
Fardid.