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Persophilia : Persian Culture on the Global Scene / Hamid Dabashi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dabashi, Hamid, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East and West.
- Orientalism--Europe--History.
- Orientalism.
- Social movements--Europe--History.
- Social movements.
- Transnationalism--History.
- Transnationalism.
- Postcolonialism--History.
- Postcolonialism.
- Iran--Civilization.
- Iran.
- Iran--Foreign public opinion.
- Iran--Relations--Europe.
- Europe--Relations--Iran.
- Europe.
- Europe--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas about Persia did not travel on a one-way street.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Distant Memories of the Biblical and Classical Heritage
- 2. Montesquieu, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Rise of Persian Liberal Nationalism
- 3. Sir William Jones, Orientalist Philology, and Persian Linguistic Nationalism
- 4. Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and Company
- 5. From Romanticism to Pan- Islamism to Transcendentalism
- 6. Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the Making of a Persian Dionysus
- 7. Edward FitzGerald and the Rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian Nihilism
- 8. Matthew Arnold, Philosophical Pessimism, and the Rise of Iranian Epic Nationalism
- 9. James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the Rise of a Proxy Public Sphere
- 10. Picturing Persia in the Visual and Performing Arts
- 11. E. G. Browne, Persian Literature, and the Making of a Transnational Literary Public Sphere
- 12. Persica Spiritualis: Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and Their Consequences
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Mrz 2018)
- ISBN:
- 9780674495791
- 0674495799
- 9780674495777
- 0674495772
- OCLC:
- 1029824696
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