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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

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 | #938367 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2000-10-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.55 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 244 pages

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||2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Negotiating Modernity|By A Customer|In this manuscript Ali Mirsepassi, a professor of Sociology and Near Eastern Studies at Hampshire College, broaches a question of the first importance. Why and how did Iranian intellectuals manage to embrace modernity while at the same keeping a critical distance from it? By deconstructing the discourse of modernity in general and its apprehe| |"...an excellent addition to the on-going debates in sociology and the Middle East." Contemporary Sociology

In this thought-provoking book, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity and exposes the Eurocentric prejudices underlying its development. He provides a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through a detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals and argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture. He con...

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