Iranian identity and cosmopolitanism : spheres of belonging /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stone, Lucian W., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Series:Suspensions (Series)
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Table of Contents:
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  • Editor's Introduction: Farsi Shekar Ast: Heterogeneity, Disorientation, Cosmopolitanism / Lucian Stone
  • 1. Iranian Intellectuals and Cosmopolitan Citizenship / Ramin Jahanbegloo
  • 2. Metaphysics, Secularism, and Cosmopolitan Democracy / Alireza Shomali and Ebrahim K.Soltani
  • 3. On the Assumed Dichotomy in the Structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Unbearable Burden of Being an Intellectual in Iran / Reza Afshari
  • 4. Cosmopolitan Resistance and Territorial Suppression: A Story of Dissidence and the Islamic Republic of Iran / Shahla Talebi
  • 5. Cosmopolitan Violence as Cosmological Reckoning: The Poetics of the Night-Raid, the Martyred Body, and the Execution-Spectacle / Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
  • 6. Armenians in Iran, or the Limits of Cosmopolitanism / Nasrin Rahimieh
  • 7. Cosmopolitanism: Neither For, Nor Against, To the Contrary / Farhang Erfani
  • Appendix: On Cosmopolitanism / Bryan Lueck
  • Bibliography
  • Index.