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The discovery of Iran : Taghi Arani, a radical cosmopolitanism / Ali Mirsepassi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mirsepassi, Ali, author.
- Series:
- Stanford scholarship online.
- Stanford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arrānī, Taqī--Political and social views.
- Arrānī, Taqī.
- Nationalism--Iran--History--20th century.
- Nationalism.
- Cosmopolitanism--Iran--History--20th century.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Philosophy, Marxist--Iran--History--20th century.
- Philosophy, Marxist.
- Iran--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Iran.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 'The Discovery of Iran' examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, Donya. In his quest to imagine a future for Iran open to the scientific riches of the modern world and the historical diversity of its own people, Arani combined Marxist materialism and a cosmopolitan ethics of progress. He sought to reconcile Iran to its post-Islamic past, rejected by Persian purists and romanticised by their traditionalist counterparts, while orienting its present toward the modern West in all its complex and conflicting facets. As Ali Mirsepassi shows, Arani's cosmopolitanism complicates the conventional wisdom that racial exclusivism was an insoluble feature of 20th-century Iranian nationalism.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Iranian nationalism, past and present
- Transnational cosmopolitanism : Arani's life and times
- Among the nationalists in Berlin, 1922-29
- The Persian language : a racialized national narrative
- For a radical cosmopolitan Iran
- Persian language, past and presence
- 'Erfan, reason and the nation
- Conclusion : an unfinished Iranian enlightenment
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781503629806
- 1503629805
- OCLC:
- 1291507738
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