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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hamid Dabashi
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.12.2012
• EAN: 9780674066717
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06671-7
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 164 mm x 240 mm x 31 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Iran, Geography, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, Literary studies: general, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Persian (Farsi)