ISBN:
9781472567420
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Series Statement:
Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
Series Statement:
Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism : Spheres of Belonging
DDC:
303.48/25501821
Keywords:
Cosmopolitanism ; Iran..
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Iran ; Civilization ; Western influences..
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Iran ; Civilization ; 21st century
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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 scie
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HalfTitle; Series page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Farsi Shekar Ast-Heterogeneity, Disorientation, Cosmopolitanism; Once upon a time . . .; Placing the accent; Home and beyond; 1 Iranian Intellectuals and Cosmopolitan Citizenship; Introduction: What is cosmopolitan citizenship?; Iranian encounters with cosmopolitan citizenship; Foroughi as a cosmopolitan intellectual; Nativism versus cosmopolitanism; New intellectual approaches to cosmopolitan citizenship; Conclusion; 2 Metaphysics, Secularism, and Cosmopolitan Democracy
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A critique of the new-Mu'tazilitesNondestructive secularization; Postmetaphysical secularism; Cosmopolitanism and postnational democracy; 3 On the Assumed Dichotomy in the Structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Unbearable Burden of Being an Intellectual; The pragmatically secular cosmopolitanism of the "other" Iran; The assumed dichotomy: Republicanism and Islamism; The unbearable burden of being an intellectual in Iran; Conclusion; 4 Cosmopolitan Resistance and Territorial Suppression: A Story of Dissidence and the Islamic Republic of Iran; Iran or Nariman
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Fluid power: Resilient conceptual framesBordered nation-states and borderless capitalism; From the "modern-yet-modest" to the "Islamic-thus-modest"; Cosmopolitanism or contamination; Nation-states and feminine cosmopolitanism; "Get them pregnant"; 5 Cosmopolitan Violence as Cosmological Reckoning: The Poetics of the Night-raid, the Martyred Body, and the Execution-specta; Akhavan-Sales' lament: The radical outcry of urban fratricide; Baraheni's reversal: The chronicle of the urban prison; Shamlu's dead end: The apocalyptic upheaval of the city
Description / Table of Contents:
The unparalleled subject: When the poet leaves the city glowing6 Armenians in Iran, or the Limits of Cosmopolitanism; 7 Cosmopolitanism: Neither For, Nor Against, to the Contrary; Why I write such a bad introduction; Better never than late: Philosophy and other fallacies; Between a hard rock and mixed metaphors: The logic of transclusion; Three options: Shooting arrows or telling the truth; Appendix: On Cosmopolitanisms; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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