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Foucault in Iran - Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Foucault in Iran - Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Series: Muslim International
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Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979
endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work
or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment
rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
argues that the critics are wrong. He declares that Foucault
recognized that Iranians were at a threshold and were considering
if it were possible to think of dignity, justice, and liberty
outside the cognitive maps and principles of the European
Enlightenment. Foucault in Iran centers not only on the
significance of the great thinker’s writings on the revolution
but also on the profound mark the event left on his later lectures
on ethics, spirituality, and fearless speech. Contemporary events
since 9/11, the War on Terror, and the Arab Uprisings have made
Foucault’s essays on the Iranian Revolution more relevant than
ever. Ghamari-Tabrizi illustrates how Foucault saw in the
revolution an instance of his antiteleological philosophy: here was
an event that did not fit into the normative progressive discourses
of history. What attracted him to the Iranian Revolution was
precisely its ambiguity. Theoretically sophisticated and
empirically rich, this interdisciplinary work will spark a lively
debate in its insistence that what informed Foucault’s writing
was not an effort to understand Islamism but, rather, his
conviction that Enlightenment rationality has not closed the gate
of unknown possibilities for human societies.Â
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