Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison: 8 (Regina Collection) - Hardcover

Jahanbegloo, Ramin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0889773025 ISBN 13: 9780889773028

Publisher: University of Regina Press, 2014

Synopsis

Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran's notorious Evin prison in 2006. A petition against his imprisonment was initiated, with Umberto Eco, Jurgen Habermas, and Noam Chomsky among the signatories. International organizations joined in, and media around the world reported his case extensively. Finally, after four months, he was released. In this memoir Jahanbegloo recounts his confinement, his fear for his life, and his concern for the well-being of his family. With cockroaches his only companions, he is sustained by the wisdom of the great philosophers and by his memories of childhood in Tehran and coming-of-age in Paris. Now exiled to Canada, Jahanbegloo wryly observes that he "traded the danger and violence of an Iranian prison for the mediocrity and hypocrisy of a late capitalist society" and finds himself struggling yet again--this time against banality--in his continued quest for freedom.

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About the Author

The winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations in Spain and an advisory board member of PEN Canada, Ramin Jahanbegloo is an internationally celebrated philosopher and currently York-Noor Visiting Chair in Islamic Studies and Associate Professor in Political Science at York University in Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889773025
• ISBN 13: 9780889773028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255