ISBN:
9781472567420
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 240 S.
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24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Suspensions: contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought
DDC:
303.48/25501821
Keywords:
Cosmopolitanism
;
Cosmopolitanism Iran
;
Iran Civilization 21st century
;
Iran Civilization
;
Western influences
;
Iran Civilization
;
Western influences
;
Iran Civilization
;
21st century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Iran
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Weltbürgertum
Abstract:
"Since cosmopolitanism has often been conceived as a tenet of 'Western civilization' that emanates from its Enlightenment-based origins in a humanist age of modernity, Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging advances a highly innovative gesture by contemplating the implications and relevance of the idea in a so-called non-Western cultural territory. The particularities of the Iranian and Islamic context shed new light on advancements and obstacles to cosmopolitan praxis. The volume provides four principle disciplinary assessments of cosmopolitanism: philosophy, political science, sociology, and cultural studies,including literary criticism. The authors in this collection critically examine topics including the historical encounter between Iranian and Western thinkers and its impact on Iranian political ideals; the tension between maintaining apolitical-theology rooted in metaphysical assumptions and the prerequisite of secularism in cosmopolitan and democratic philosophies. This highly innovative volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Middle Eastern and Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Globalization, Political Science and Philosophy"--
Abstract:
"Since cosmopolitanism has often been conceived as a tenet of 'Western civilization' that emanates from its Enlightenment-based origins in a humanist age of modernity, Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging advances a highly innovative gesture by contemplating the implications and relevance of the idea in a so-called non-Western cultural territory. The particularities of the Iranian and Islamic context shed new light on advancements and obstacles to cosmopolitan praxis. The volume provides four principle disciplinary assessments of cosmopolitanism: philosophy, political science, sociology, and cultural studies,including literary criticism. The authors in this collection critically examine topics including the historical encounter between Iranian and Western thinkers and its impact on Iranian political ideals; the tension between maintaining apolitical-theology rooted in metaphysical assumptions and the prerequisite of secularism in cosmopolitan and democratic philosophies. This highly innovative volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Middle Eastern and Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Globalization, Political Science and Philosophy"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index
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Machine generated contents note:Editor's Introduction: Farsi Shekar Ast: Heterogeneity, Disorientation, Cosmopolitanism
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1. Iranian Intellectuals and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
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2. Metaphysics, Secularism, and Cosmopolitan Democracy
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3. On the Assumed Dichotomy in the Structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Unbearable Burden of Being an Intellectual in Iran
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4. Cosmopolitan Resistance and Territorial Suppression: A Story of Dissidence and the Islamic Republic of Iran
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5. Cosmopolitan Violence as Cosmological Reckoning: The Poetics of the Night-Raid, the Martyred Body, and the Execution-Spectacle
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6. Armenians in Iran, or the Limits of Cosmopolitanism
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7. Cosmopolitanism: Neither For, Nor Against, To the Contrary
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Appendix: On Cosmopolitanism
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Bibliography ; Index.
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