Name: iranian intellectuals and the west,the tormented triumph of nativism (en Inglés)
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Author: Boroujerdi, Mehrzad
ISBN: 9780815604334

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Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Editorial

Syracuse University Publications in Continuin

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN

0815604335

ISBN13

9780815604334

Categorías

Oriente próximo
Política y gobierno
Historia de oriente próximo

iranian intellectuals and the west,the tormented triumph of nativism (en Inglés)

Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Autor) · Syracuse University Publications in Continuin · Tapa Blanda

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Mehrzad Boroujerdi challenges the way many Americans perceive present-day Iran as well as how Iranians view the West. He examines the works of thinkers seminal in defining modern Iran (virtually unknown in the U.S.) and concludes the Islam was not the primary source of their inspiration. Their efforts to forge an "authentic" national identity lay at the heart of Iranian thought. These intellectuals (both religious and secular) appropriated Islam as the vehicle through which they could most effectively challenge or accommodate modernity and Westernization. Through such a fitting appropriation, Boroujerdi asserts, could modern Iranian thinkers lay the foundation for a nativist vision of an unsullied culture, seemingly free of Western influence. Drawing on the works of Michel Foucault and Edward Said, this book explores how Iranians use their own misunderstandings about the West to form their own identity and, in return, how Westerners describe Iran in negative terms to help them reaffirm the superiority of their own culture. Boroujerdi also argues that Iranian intellectuals have been deeply indebted to Western thought, which has served as the cultural reference through which they continue to struggle with issues of identity and selfhood.