Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment : philosophies of hope and despair / / Ali Mirsepassi.
"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"--
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 230 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.