Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization by Ali Mirsepassi
In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The author argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity, culture and historical experience. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular. A significant contribution to the literature on modernity, social change and Islamic Studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of social theory and change, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many related areas.-
The Making of English National Identity
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Colonial Fantasies
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The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis
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Music and Social Movements
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Trust
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Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles
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The Simulation of Surveillance
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Queer Fictions of the Past
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Avoiding Politics
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Evil and Human Agency
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The Playing Self
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Intellectuals and the Nation
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Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
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Matters of Culture
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Genealogies of Citizenship
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Struggles for Subjectivity
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Difference Troubles
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Identity without Selfhood
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Nationalism and Literature
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Challenging Codes
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Nation and Commemoration
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Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution
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Cultural Trauma
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Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times
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Thinking through Television
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The Unfinished Revolution
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The Performative Presidency
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Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
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Performing Civility
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Social Performance
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The Work of Global Justice
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Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society
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A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
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Distant Suffering
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French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
"..an excellent addition to the on-going debates in sociology and the Middle East." Contemporary Sociology
Mirsepassi, Ali: - Ali Mirsepassi is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and director of the Iranian Studies Initiative at New York University. He is the co-editor, with Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, of The Global Middle East, a book series published by Cambridge University Press, and the author of Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought (Cambridge, 2017), Political Islam, Iran and Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2011), Democracy in Modern Iran (2010) and Intellectual Discourses and Politics of Modernization (Cambridge, 2000). He also co-authored, with Tadd Fernee, Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism (Cambridge, 2014). He was a 2007-09 Carnegie Scholar and has received several awards, including a 2001 Best Researcher of the Year Award, a teaching award from Tehran University, and 2014 Award for Outstanding Service from the Institute for International Education Scholar Rescue Fund.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521659970 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521659973 |
| Title | Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization |
| Author | Ali Mirsepassi |
| Series | Cambridge Cultural Social Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2000-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
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