Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment philosophies of hope and despair
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 t...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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