Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in IranCambridge University Press, 12/10/2000 - 227 من الصفحات 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. |
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Western narratives of modernity | 15 |
Montesquieus Persian Letters | 18 |
the colonization of world history | 24 |
the materialist narrative of modernity | 36 |
The popularization of the Islamic Other | 40 |
Conclusion | 52 |
Reconciling with the Wests Other | 54 |
reconciliation through capitulation | 55 |
The German context | 131 |
The discourse of authenticity in Friedrich Nietzsche and Ernst Junger | 137 |
Martin Heidegger | 146 |
Conclusion | 155 |
The tragedy of the Iranian Left | 159 |
A brief history of socialist movements | 160 |
The Revolution and the Left | 164 |
The social bases and composition of the Left | 171 |
The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam | 65 |
The decline of democratic secularism 194153 | 66 |
Modernization and its discontent | 73 |
The politicization of Shiism | 79 |
Reform in Shii institutions | 84 |
Conclusion | 94 |
Islam as a modernizing ideology Ale Ahmad and Shariati | 96 |
return to the roots | 97 |
Islamic ideology as an authentic discourse | 114 |
Conclusion | 127 |
German intellectuals and the culture of modernity | 129 |
Critiques of the Left | 175 |
A response to the critiques | 177 |
Modernities of our time | 180 |
Modernization and the survival of cultures | 186 |
Predicament of secularism | 189 |
Theoretical and political implications | 191 |
Notes | 194 |
Bibliography | 216 |
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الصفحة 2 - Modern environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity, of class and nationality, of religion and ideology: in this sense, modernity can be said to unite all mankind. But it is a paradoxical unity, a unity in disunity: it pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal, of struggle and contradiction, of ambiguity and anguish. To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, "all that is solid melts into air.