Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
Negotiating Modernity in Iran
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- Author: Ali Mirsepassi, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
- Date Published: October 2000
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- isbn: 9780521659970
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In this thought-provoking book, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity and exposes the Eurocentric prejudices underlying its development. He provides a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through a detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals and argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular.
Read more- Develops a new concept of modernity, free from traditional Eurocentric assumptions
- New perspective on Islamic Fundamentalism
- Unique study of the cultural and social transformations taken place since the Iranian Revolution
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"...an excellent addition to the on-going debates in sociology and the Middle East." Contemporary Sociology
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- Date Published: October 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521659970
- length: 244 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 155 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.415kg
- contains: 5 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: modernity and 'culture'
1. Western narratives of modernity
2. Reconciling with the West's other
3. The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam
4. Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati
5. German intellectuals and the culture of modernity
6. The tragedy of the Iranian left
7. Modernities of our time
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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