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Political Islam, Iran, and ...
"Ali Mirsepassi's book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends"--
"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"--
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monografia Rebiun19412330 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19412330 100601s2010 nyu sb 001 0deng d 9780521768825 9780521745901 9780511988622 UPCT u383926 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR UMA.RE Mirsepassi, Ali Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment Recurso electrónico] :] philosophies of hope and despair Ali Mirsepassi New York Cambridge University Press 2010 New York New York Cambridge University Press vii, 230 p. vii, 230 p. Ebook Central Includes bibliographical references and index Machine generated contents note: Introduction: political Islam's romance with the 'West'; 1. Intellectuals and the politics of despair; 2. The crisis of the nativist imagination; 3. Modernity beyond nativism and universalism; 4. Heidegger and Iran: the dark side of being and belonging; 5. Democracy and religion in the thought of John Dewey; 6. Enlightenment and moral politics; 7. Conclusion "Ali Mirsepassi's book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends"-- Provided by publisher "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"-- Provided by publisher Modo de acceso: World Wide Web Ebook Central Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976- Influence Dewey, John 1859-1952- Influence Intellectuals- Political activity- Irán Islam and politics- Irán Politics and culture- Irán Islam and secularism- Irán Islamic modernism- Irán Iran- Politics and government Iran- Intellectual life Ebook Central (Servicio en línea)