LEADER 03835nam 22007692 450 001 9910824681303321 005 20160506134741.0 010 $a1-107-21788-1 010 $a0-511-99361-7 010 $a0-511-99043-X 010 $a0-511-98682-3 010 $a0-511-99142-8 010 $a0-511-99241-6 010 $a1-283-05011-0 010 $a0-511-98862-1 010 $a9786613050113 010 $a0-511-97512-0 035 $a(CKB)3190000000006420 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000462797 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11307022 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000462797 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10409171 035 $a(PQKB)11398773 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC647431 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL647431 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442822 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305011 035 $a(OCoLC)700706262 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511975127 035 $a(PPN)199803757 035 $a(EXLCZ)993190000000006420 100 $a20101011d2011|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitical Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment $ephilosophies of hope and despair /$fAli Mirsepassi 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 230 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-74590-X 311 $a0-521-76882-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: political Islam's romance with the 'West' -- 1. Intellectuals and the politics of despair -- 2. The crisis of the nativist imagination -- 3. Modernity beyond nativism and universalism -- 4. Heidegger and Iran: the dark side of being and belonging -- 5. Democracy and religion in the thought of John Dewey -- 6. Enlightenment and moral politics -- 7. Conclusion. 330 $aAli Mirsepassi's book presents a powerful challenge to the dominant media and scholarly construction of radical Islamist politics, and their anti-Western ideology, as a purely Islamic phenomenon derived from insular, traditional and monolithic religious 'foundations'. It argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends. The work demonstrates this by establishing links between important contemporary Iranian intellectuals and the central influence of Martin Heidegger's philosophy. We are also introduced to new democratic narratives of modernity linked to diverse intellectual trends in the West and in non-Western societies, notably in India, where the ideas of John Dewey have influenced important democratic social movements. As the first book to make such connections, it promises to be an important contribution to the field and will do much to overturn some pervasive assumptions about the dichotomy between East and West. 517 3 $aPolitical Islam, Iran, & the Enlightenment 606 $aIntellectuals$xPolitical activity$zIran 606 $aIslam and politics$zIran 606 $aPolitics and culture$zIran 606 $aIslam and secularism$zIran 606 $aIslamic modernism$zIran 607 $aIran$xPolitics and government 607 $aIran$xIntellectual life 615 0$aIntellectuals$xPolitical activity 615 0$aIslam and politics 615 0$aPolitics and culture 615 0$aIslam and secularism 615 0$aIslamic modernism 676 $a320.5/570955 700 $aMirsepassi$b Ali$0712788 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824681303321 996 $aPolitical Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment$93982556 997 $aUNINA