Persophilia : Persian culture on the global scene /
Whence the origin and wherefore the destination of the European and thence global fascination with things Persian? In this book, the author reveals the landscape of a spectacular circulation of ideas between 'East' and 'West' that posits a global scene upon which Persian culture...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Distant memories of the Biblical and classical heritage
- Montesquieu, the bourgeois public sphere, and the rise of Persian liberal nationalism
- Sir William Jones, Orientalist philology, and Persian linguistic nationalism
- Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and company
- From romanticism to pan-Islamism to transcendentalism
- Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the making of a Persian Dionysus
- Edward FitzGerald and the rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian nihilism
- Matthew Arnold, philosophical pessimism, and the rise of Iranian epic nationalism
- James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the rise of a proxy public sphere
- Picturing Persia in visual and performing arts
- E.G. Browne, canonization of Persian literature, and the making of a transnational literary public sphere
- Persica spiritualis : Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and their consequences.