Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment :philosophies of hope and despair
Cambridge ;New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011
vii, 230 p. ;24 cm
مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: 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.
"Ali Mirsepassi's book argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends"--Provided by publisher.