Iran's Troubled Modernity : Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy Hardback
by Ali (New York University) Mirsepassi
Part of the The Global Middle East series
Hardback
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Ahmad Fardid (1910–94), the 'anti-Western' philosopher known to many as the Iranian Heidegger, became the self-proclaimed philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, famously coining the term 'Westoxication'.
Using new materials about Fardid's intellectual biography and interviews with thirteen individuals, Ali Mirsepassi pieces together the striking story of Fardid's life and intellectual legacy.
Each interview in turn sheds light on Iran's twentieth-century intellectual and political self-construction and highlights Fardid's important role and influence in the creation of Iranian modernity.
The Fardid phenomenon was unique to the Iranian story, and yet contributed to a broader twentieth-century Heideggerian tradition that marked the political destiny of other countries under a similar ideological sway.
Through these accounts, Mirsepassi cuts to the nerve of how deadly political 'authenticity movements' take hold of modern societies and spread their ideology.
Combining a sociological framework with the realities of lived experience, he examines Iran's recent and astonishing upheavals, experiments, and mass mobilizations.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:380 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781108476393
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:380 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108476393
