The World of Persian Literary Humanism

Informationen zum Autor Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Klappentext Humanism has mostly considered the question "What does it mean to be human?" from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. Zusammenfassung Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.

Product details

• Authors: Hamid Dabashi
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2012
• EAN: 9780674066717
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06671-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 240 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book; Iran, Geography, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, Literary studies: general, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Persian (Farsi)