Cargando…
Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization : Negotiating Modernity in Iran.
Ali Mirsepassi explores Eurocentric assumptions about modernity and Islamic Fundamentalism. He argues the Iranian Revolution was not a clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture and assesses the future of sec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
|
| Colección: | Cambridge Cultural Social Sciences.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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.