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008 131212s2014 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013048836
020 $a9781472567420 (hardback)
020 $z9781472567437 (ePDF)
020 $z9781472567444 (ePub)
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050 00 $aDS266$b.I67 2014
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245 00 $aIranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism :$bSpheres of Belonging /$cEdited by Lucian Stone.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2014.
300 $axi, 240 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aSuspensions: contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought
520 $a"Since cosmopolitanism has often been conceived as a tenet of 'Western civilization' that emanates from its Enlightenment-based origins in a humanist age of modernity, Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging advances a highly innovative gesture by contemplating the implications and relevance of the idea in a so-called non-Western cultural territory. The particularities of the Iranian and Islamic context shed new light on advancements and obstacles to cosmopolitan praxis. The volume provides four principle disciplinary assessments of cosmopolitanism: philosophy, political science, sociology, and cultural studies,including literary criticism. The authors in this collection critically examine topics including the historical encounter between Iranian and Western thinkers and its impact on Iranian political ideals; the tension between maintaining apolitical-theology rooted in metaphysical assumptions and the prerequisite of secularism in cosmopolitan and democratic philosophies. This highly innovative volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Middle Eastern and Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Globalization, Political Science and Philosophy"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Editor's Introduction: Farsi Shekar Ast: Heterogeneity, Disorientation, Cosmopolitanism / Lucian Stone -- 1. Iranian Intellectuals and Cosmopolitan Citizenship / Ramin Jahanbegloo -- 2. Metaphysics, Secularism, and Cosmopolitan Democracy / Alireza Shomali and Ebrahim K.Soltani -- 3. On the Assumed Dichotomy in the Structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Unbearable Burden of Being an Intellectual in Iran / Reza Afshari -- 4. Cosmopolitan Resistance and Territorial Suppression: A Story of Dissidence and the Islamic Republic of Iran / Shahla Talebi -- 5. Cosmopolitan Violence as Cosmological Reckoning: The Poetics of the Night-Raid, the Martyred Body, and the Execution-Spectacle / Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh -- 6. Armenians in Iran, or the Limits of Cosmopolitanism / Nasrin Rahimieh -- 7. Cosmopolitanism: Neither For, Nor Against, To the Contrary / Farhang Erfani -- Appendix: On Cosmopolitanism / Bryan Lueck -- Bibliography -- Index.
651 0 $aIran$xCivilization$xWestern influences.
650 0 $aCosmopolitanism$zIran.
651 0 $aIran$xCivilization$y21st century.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aStone, Lucian W.,$d1972-$eeditor.