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Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization : negotiating modernity in Iran /

"In this study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focussing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mirsepassi, Ali
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Colección:Cambridge cultural social studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: modernity and "culture"
  • 1. Western narratives of modernity. Orientalism and the Occidentalist discontent. Montesquieu's Persian Letters. Hegel: the colonization of world history. Karl Marx: the materialist narrative of modernity. The "popularization" of the Islamic Other
  • 2. Reconciling with the West's Other. The Mashruteh movement: reconciliation through capitulation
  • 3. The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam. The decline of democratic secularism (1941-53). Modernization and its discontent. The politicization of Shi'ism. Reform in Shi'i institutions
  • 4. Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati. Al-e Ahmad: "return" to the "roots" Ali Shari'ati: Islamic ideology as an authentic discourse.