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Iran's Troubled Modernity - Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy (Paperback)
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Iran's Troubled Modernity - Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy (Paperback)
Series: The Global Middle East
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Ahmad Fardid (1910-94), the 'anti-Western' philosopher known to
many as the Iranian Heidegger, became the self-proclaimed
philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, famously
coining the term 'Westoxication'. Using new materials about
Fardid's intellectual biography and interviews with thirteen
individuals, Ali Mirsepassi pieces together the striking story of
Fardid's life and intellectual legacy. Each interview in turn sheds
light on Iran's twentieth-century intellectual and political
self-construction and highlights Fardid's important role and
influence in the creation of Iranian modernity. The Fardid
phenomenon was unique to the Iranian story, and yet contributed to
a broader twentieth-century Heideggerian tradition that marked the
political destiny of other countries under a similar ideological
sway. Through these accounts, Mirsepassi cuts to the nerve of how
deadly political 'authenticity movements' take hold of modern
societies and spread their ideology. Combining a sociological
framework with the realities of lived experience, he examines
Iran's recent and astonishing upheavals, experiments, and mass
mobilizations.
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