Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought - The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A study of the life and thought of the Iranian philosopher Ahmad Fardid and the development of political philosophy in post-revolutionary Iran.An account of the rise of political Islam in modern Iran, following the intellectual journey of the philosopher Ahmad Fardid. This book will be of use to scholars in courses studying modern Iran, political Islam and the politics of the Middle East, philosophy, post-colonial studies, religious studies and social theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ali Mirsepassi, Ali (New York University) Mirsepassi, Mirsepassi Ali
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2017
• EAN: 9781316636473
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63647-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: The Global Middle East; The Global Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, Iran, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, RELIGION / Islam / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, Social & political philosophy, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Middle Eastern history, Asian History, Religion and Politics, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy