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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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Cambridge :
New York : Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.