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Both Eastern and Western :

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1108449972

9781108428538

9781108449977

9781108653541 (PDF ebook)

Both Eastern and Western :

[Book]

an intellectual history of Iranian modernity /

Afshin Matin-Asgari.

New York, NY :

Cambridge University Press,

2018.

©2018

x, 361 pages ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : intellectual constructions of Iranian modernity -- Lineages of authoritarian modernity : the Russo-Ottoman model -- The Berlin circle : crafting the worldview of Iranian nationalism -- Subverting constitutionalism : intellectuals as instruments of modern dictatorship -- Intellectual missing links : politicizing religion and translating modernity -- The mid-century moment of socialist hegemony -- Revolutionary monarchy, political shi'ism, and Islamic marxism -- Conclusion : aborted resurrection : an intellectual arena wide open to opposition.

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Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, many western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between eastern history and 'western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result, analysis of political philosophy preceding the revolution has become subsumed by this narrative. Here, Afshin Matin-Asgari proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history, challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historiography and offering a new narration. In charting the intellectual construction of Iranian modernity during the twentieth-century, Matin-Asgari focuses on broad patterns of influential ideas and their relation to each other. These intellectual trends are studied in a global historical context, leading to the assertion that Iranian modernity has been sustained by at least a century of intense intellectual interaction with global ideologies.

9781108653541

East and West.

Islam and politics-- Iran.

Political science-- Iran-- Philosophy.

East and West.

Historiography.

Intellectual life.

Islam and politics.

Political science-- Philosophy.

Iran, History, 1979-1997.

Iran, History, 1997-

Iran, History, Historiography.

Iran, Intellectual life, 20th century.

Iran, Intellectual life, 21st century.

Iran.

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