1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337703703321

Autore

Kjaran Jón Ingvar

Titolo

Gay Life Stories : Same-Sex Desires in Post-Revolutionary Iran / / by Jón Ingvar Kjaran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030128319

3030128318

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

306.7662

306.76620955

Soggetti

Ethnology

Culture - Study and teaching

Queer theory

Sex

Ethnology - Middle East

Culture

Sociocultural Anthropology

Cultural Studies

Queer Studies

Ethnography

Gender Studies

Middle Eastern Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Reading Foucault in Tehran -- 3. The Historical Contingencies and the Politics of Same-Sex Desire in Iran -- 4. The Construction of the Iranian Gay Subject Outside of Iran -- 5. Ethical Relationality and Accounts of Gay Iranian Men -- 6. Iranian Gay/Queer Activists and Activism -- 7. The "Sick Gay": Being HIV-positive in Iran -- 8. Gay/Queer Spaces in Tehran: Intimacy, Sociality, and Resistance -- 9. Conclusion: Gay Livability in a Queer Dystopia.

Sommario/riassunto

"Jón Ingvar Kjaran examines the complicated embodied experiences of



gay-identifying men in Iran, focusing on their agency and the ways in which they carve out meaning in their lives. This is no easy task, since these men must resist both the official homophobic discourses of the state and the personal trauma they endure from family and society. The author shows the regional and class differences with regard to tolerance of a gay lifestyle. While many conservative communities disavow homosexuality and demonize same-sex desire, queer spaces exist in Tehran and other large urban areas where resistance can manifest itself in a variety of forms and where semi-open intimacy can take place. Despite its deep theoretical grounding, this is a highly enjoyable read, full of personal vignettes that will be of interest to both academic audiences and a general public." -Janet Afary, Mellichamp Chair and Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Drawing on ethnographic encounters with self-identified gay men in Iran, this book explores the construction, enactment, and veiling and unveiling of gay identity and same-sex desire in the capital city of Tehran. The research draws on diverse interpretive, historical, online and empirical sources in order to present critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation and the constitution of same-sex desire under the specific conditions of Iranian modernity. As it engages with accounts of the persecuted Iranian gay male subject as a victim of the barbarism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the book addresses interpretive questions of sexuality governance in transnational contexts and attends to issues of human rights frameworks in weighing social justice and political claims made by and on behalf of sexual and gender minorities. The book thus combines empirical data with a critical consideration of the politics of same-sex desire for Iranian gay men.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910686470403321

Autore

Li Zhi

Titolo

The Concept of the Individual in the Thought of Karl Marx / / by Zhi Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031225918

3031225910

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 293 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Disciplina

320.01

355.4112

Soggetti

Political science

Marxian school of sociology

Political science - Philosophy

Political sociology

Political Theory

Marxist Sociology

Political Philosophy

Political Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction to the English Edition- Part 1: Dialectics and History -- Chapter 2. Dialectics as a Methodological Principle -- Chapter 3. History as the Object of Totality -- Part 2: The History and Logic of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 4. The Concept of the Individual in the Context of the Young Hegelian School -- Chapter 5. The Concept of the Individual in Marx’s Theory of Estrangement -- Chapter 6. The Concept of the Individual From the Perspective of History -- Chapter 7. The Concept of the Individual and Marx’s Philosophy. -- Part 3: The Normative Significance of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 8. Theoretical Criticism and the Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 9. A Critical-Based Theory of Individual Emancipation -- Chapter 10. Moral Criticism and the Good -- Part 4: Situating the Marx’s Concept of the Individual in the Present -- Chapter



11. Chinese Socialist Practice and the Revival of Marx’s Concept of the Individual -- Chapter 12. Studies on Marx’s Concept of the Individual and China’s Modernisation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Marx moved from an examination of the contingency and indeterminacy of individual consciousness in his early years to a critique of the atomistic individual and materialised social relations in his later years. His thought proposes that ‘real individuals’ are the basis for an understanding of human society that promotes the emancipation of humankind. Marx’s philosophy has often been misunderstood as lacking a concept of the individual. In China this misunderstanding not only relates to cultural and linguistic particularities (the word ‘individual’ is seldom used in Chinese), but also relates to a misleading view of socialism and communism. This book helps remedy this misunderstanding and draws important comparisons and contrasts between Marx’s concept of the individual with that of liberalism, and between Western and Eastern Marxism. Zhi Li works at School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, and was previously Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven, Belgium, and University of Bristol, UK. His previous publications include: The Concept of the Individual in the Thought of Karl Marx (2014), and The Ethical Critique: Karl Marx and Present World (2022).