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Foucault in Iran : Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi.
Van Pelt Library B2430.F724 G52 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz, author.
- Series:
- Muslim international
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Influence.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Iran--History--Revolution, 1979.
- Iran.
- Iran--History--Revolution, 1979--Historiography.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 257 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Foucault in Iran center, on the significance of Michel Foucault's writings on the Iranian Revolution and the profound mark this event left on his lectures on ethics, spirituality, and fearless speech. This interdisciplinary work will spark a lively debate in its insistence that what informed Foucault's writing was his conviction that Enlightenment rationality has not closed the gate of unknown possibilities for human societies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Foucault's indictment
- Thinking the unthinkable: the revolutionary movement in Iran
- How did Foucault make sense of the Iranian revolution?
- Misrepresenting the Revolution, misreading Foucault
- The reign of terror, women's issues, and feminist politics
- Was ist Aufklärung? The Iranian revolution as a moment of enlightenment
- Conclusion: writing the history of the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816699483
- 0816699488
- 9780816699490
- 0816699496
- OCLC:
- 923017610
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