Iranian identity and cosmopolitanism : spheres of belonging / edited by Lucian Stone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, Lucian, 1972- editor.

Series:

Suspensions (Series)

Suspensions : contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism--Iran.

Cosmopolitanism.

Iran--Civilization--Western influences.

Iran.

Iran--Civilization--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472567444

1472567447

9781474273169

1474273165

9781472594686

1472594681

9781472567437

1472567439

OCLC:

881430419