Persophilia : Persian culture on the global scene /

"Whence the origin and wherefore the destination of the European and thence global fascination with things Persian? In this book, the author reveals the landscape of a spectacular circulation of ideas between 'East' and 'West' that posits a global scene upon which Persian cu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dabashi, Hamid, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
East and West.
Orientalism > Europe > History.
Social movements > Europe > History.
Transnationalism > History.
Postcolonialism > History.
Orientalisme > Europe > Histoire.
Mouvements sociaux > Europe > Histoire.
Transnationalisme > Histoire.
Postcolonialisme > Histoire.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
International relations.
Orientalism.
Postcolonialism.
Public opinion.
Social movements.
Transnationalism.
Iranbild
Kulturaustausch
Iran > Civilization.
Iran > Foreign public opinion.
Iran > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Relations > Iran.
Europe > Intellectual life.
Iran > Civilisation.
Europe > Vie intellectuelle.
Europe.
Iran.
Europa
Iran
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Distant memories of the Biblical and classical heritage
  • Montesquieu, the bourgeois public sphere, and the rise of Persian liberal nationalism
  • Sir William Jones, Orientalist philology, and Persian linguistic nationalism
  • Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and company
  • From romanticism to pan-Islamism to transcendentalism
  • Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the making of a Persian Dionysus
  • Edward FitzGerald and the rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian nihilism
  • Matthew Arnold, philosophical pessimism, and the rise of Iranian epic nationalism
  • James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the rise of a proxy public sphere
  • Picturing Persia in visual and performing arts
  • E.G. Browne, canonization of Persian literature, and the making of a transnational literary public sphere
  • Persica spiritualis : Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and their consequences.

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