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the tormented triumph of nativism
By Mehrzad Boroujerdi
"Iranian intellectuals and the West" was published by Syracuse University Press in 1996 - Syracuse, N.Y, it has 256 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: ➤ Iranian intellectuals and the West
- Author: Mehrzad Boroujerdi
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 256
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Publish Date: 1996
- Publish Location: Syracuse, N.Y
“Iranian intellectuals and the West” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Intellectual life - Ideeëngeschiedenis - Kulturkontakt - 15.75 history of Asia - Iraniërs - Geistesleben - Invloed - Intellectuelen - Geschichte 1900-1990 - Iran, intellectual life
- Places: Iran
- Time: 20th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: ➤ xix, 256 p., [10] p. of plates :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL989110M - OL3282954W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 35128073
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): tmp96027371 - 96027371
- ISBN-10: 0815627262 - 0815604335
- All ISBNs: 0815627262 - 0815604335
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Mehrzad Boroujerdi challenges the way many Americans perceive present-day Iran as well as how Iranians view the West. He examines the works of thinkers seminal in defining modern Iran (virtually unknown in the U.S.) and concludes the Islam was not the primary source of their inspiration. Their efforts to forge an "authentic" national identity lay at the heart of Iranian thought. These intellectuals (both religious and secular) appropriated Islam as the vehicle through which they could most effectively challenge or accommodate modernity and Westernization. Through such a fitting appropriation, Boroujerdi asserts, could modern Iranian thinkers lay the foundation for a nativist vision of an unsullied culture, seemingly free of Western influence. . Drawing on the works of Michel Foucault and Edward Said, this book explores how Iranians use their own misunderstandings about the West to form their own identity and, in return, how Westerners describe Iran in negative terms to help them reaffirm the superiority of their own culture. Boroujerdi also argues that Iranian intellectuals have been deeply indebted to Western thought, which has served as the cultural reference through which they continue to struggle with issues of identity and selfhood.
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