Book contents
- Iran’s Quiet Revolution
- The Global Middle East
- Iran’s Quiet Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 The Allure of the “Anti-modern”
- 2 De-politicizing Westoxification:
- 3 Ehsan Naraghi:
- 4 Iranian Cinema’s “Quiet Revolution” (1960s–1970s)
- 5 A Garden between Two Streets:
- 6 The Shah as a “Modern Mystic”?
- 7 The Imaginary Invention of a Nation:
- 8 An Elective Affinity:
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - An Elective Affinity:
Variations of Gharbzadegi
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2019
- Iran’s Quiet Revolution
- The Global Middle East
- Iran’s Quiet Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 The Allure of the “Anti-modern”
- 2 De-politicizing Westoxification:
- 3 Ehsan Naraghi:
- 4 Iranian Cinema’s “Quiet Revolution” (1960s–1970s)
- 5 A Garden between Two Streets:
- 6 The Shah as a “Modern Mystic”?
- 7 The Imaginary Invention of a Nation:
- 8 An Elective Affinity:
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book builds on my earlier study of Ahmad Fardid’s thought.1 I have analyzed the gharbzadegi philosophy as the complex site of a transnational circulation of ideas, producing a significant discursive formation in the Iranian political imagination. The young Fardid was influenced by the fin de siècle French critique of modern Western rationality pioneered by Henri Bergson. Spiritual Islam, particularly in Corbin’s vision, inspired Fardid with a platform offering a new interpretation of Islamic and Iranian traditions. At this point Fardid’s ideas were close to European counter-Enlightenment ideology.
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- Iran's Quiet RevolutionThe Downfall of the Pahlavi State, pp. 197 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019