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  title info:
    title: Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment
    sub title: philosophies of hope and despair
  name:
    name part: Mirsepassi, Ali.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "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.
  abstract: "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.
  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.
  note: Ali Mirsepassi.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ir---
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: Intellectuals
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: Islam and politics
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: Politics and culture
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: Islam and secularism
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: Islamic modernism
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Heidegger, Martin
      name part: 1889-1976
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dewey, John
      name part: 1859-1952
    topic: Influence
  classification: DS318.825 .M576 2011
  classification: 320.5/570955
  identifier: 9780521768825 (hardback)
  identifier: 0521768829 (hardback)
  identifier: 2010022939
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100601
    record change date: 20151202113959.0
    record identifier: in00002673621