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

Mirsepassi, Ali

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521650003 ISBN 13: 9780521650007

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The author 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, culture and historical experience. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular. A significant contribution to the literature on modernity, social change and Islamic Studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of social theory and change, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many related areas.

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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization Examines modernity in the context of Islamic Fundamentalism and the Iranian Revolution. Full description

Review

"...an excellent addition to the on-going debates in sociology and the Middle East." Contemporary Sociology

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521650003
• ISBN 13: 9780521650007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244