Persophilia : : Persian Culture on the Global Scene / / Hamid Dabashi.
From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas ab...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Distant Memories of the Biblical and Classical Heritage
- 2. Montesquieu, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Rise of Persian Liberal Nationalism
- 3. Sir William Jones, Orientalist Philology, and Persian Linguistic Nationalism
- 4. Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and Company
- 5. From Romanticism to Pan- Islamism to Transcendentalism
- 6. Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the Making of a Persian Dionysus
- 7. Edward FitzGerald and the Rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian Nihilism
- 8. Matthew Arnold, Philosophical Pessimism, and the Rise of Iranian Epic Nationalism
- 9. James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the Rise of a Proxy Public Sphere
- 10. Picturing Persia in the Visual and Performing Arts
- 11. E. G. Browne, Persian Literature, and the Making of a Transnational Literary Public Sphere
- 12. Persica Spiritualis: Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and Their Consequences
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index