Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization
/ Ali Mirsepassi
Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization
المؤلف
/ Ali Mirsepassiطبع 1
قائمة
شناسنامه
المدخل الرئيسي
Mirsepassi, Ali، نویسندهالعنوان واسم المؤلف
Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization / / Ali Mirsepassiبيانات النشر
کمبریج : : Cambridge University Press، 2000مالمواصفات الشكلية
xiv, 227 p.؛ ; 24 cm.الموضوع
IranPolitics and government
20th century
Politics and culture
Iran
Islam and politics
Iran
Islam and secularism
Iran
مسلسل
(Cambridge cultural social studies؛ )اللغة
انگلیسیرقم الاسترجاع
المؤتمر:
ملاحظات
انگليسي.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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-223) and index.
