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Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment - Philosophies of Hope and Despair (Paperback)
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Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment - Philosophies of Hope and Despair (Paperback)
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Ali Mirsepassi s book presents a powerful challenge to the dominant
media and scholarly construction of radical Islamist politics, and
their anti-Western ideology, as a purely Islamic phenomenon derived
from insular, traditional, and monolithic religious foundations. It
argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections
to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and
modern Western intellectual trends. The work demonstrates this by
establishing links between important contemporary Iranian
intellectuals and the central influence of Martin Heidegger s
philosophy. We are also introduced to new democratic narratives of
modernity linked to diverse intellectual trends in the West and in
non-Western societies, notably in India, where the ideas of John
Dewey have influenced important democratic social movements. As the
first book to make such connections, it promises to be an important
contribution to the field and will do much to overturn some
long-held and pervasive assumptions about the dichotomy between
East and West.
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