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Cultural Schizophrenia
Professor Daryush Shayegan's book is a major contribution to what is perhaps the most critical debate within the Muslim world today: the relationship between its own culture and the influence of Western modernity. Based on examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author portrays a society he defines as peripheral—bound by a slavish adherence to its own glorified history, its "Tradition"—yet facing an external reality that derives from the West. The meeting of these two incompatible worlds sees the West but, more importantly, in how it sees itself. Shayegan draws on a vast range of cultural experiences (from China and Japan to India and Latin America) in analyzing the type of mentality that is chained to its history. Sources as diverse as Jung and Octavio Paz widen the scope of this illuminating text. Already published in French, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic to great critical acclaim, this English edition of Cultural Schizophrenia will be required reading for everyone concerned with the state of the world today, whether in the Third World or the West.
Cultural Schizophrenia
This book is a major contribution to what is perhaps the most critical debate within the Muslim world today: the relationship between its own culture and the influence of Western modernity. Based on examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, Shayegan portrays a society he defines as peripheral -- bound by a slavish adherence to its own glorified history, its Tradition1, yet facing an external reality that derives from the West. The meeting of these two incompatible worlds leads to a profound distortion, not only in how the Muslim world sees the West but, more importantly, in how it sees itself. He draws on a vast range of cultural experiences (from China and Japan to India and Latin America) in analyzing the type of mentality that is chained to his history.
Iranian Contemporary Art
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Curve Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, 12 April - 3 June 2001.
Iranian Man
Edition bilingue anglais-français. " Je vois dans son oeuvre, en dépit de son caractère très éloquent, deux motifs cachés qui animent l'artiste, peut-être même à son insu. Une mise en scène théâtrale du drame historique de son pays, dont il a vécu intensément les péripéties les plus douloureuses, et un cheminement discret vers une spiritualité qui se dégage de l'ensemble de sa vision. Ici, Tirafkan rejoint subrepticement la quête mystique qui demeure, qu'on le veuille ou non, la clef de voûte de tout l'édifice métaphysique du monde iranien. " Daryush Shayegan. " J'ai commencé à photographier ce qui m'environnait. Maintenant j'amène ce qui m'entoure dans mon atelier où je le transforme en ce que je vois à travers le prisme de ma vie et de ma culture. Une idée germe comme une photographie mais peut donner lieu à un collage ou à une vidéo. " Sadegh Tirafkan
Iran
Argues that the construction of a legitimate Islamic political culture and ideology is the key to the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime. Addresses a wide range of specific aspects within a theoretical framework.
Into the Image
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Post-Orientalism
Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's work picks up where Edward Said's Orientalism left off. Said traced the origin of the power of representation and the normative agency that it entails to the colonial hubris that carried a militant band of mercenary merchants, military officers, Christian missionaries, and European Orientalists around the globe. This hubris enabled them to write and represent the people they sought to rule. Dabashi's book is not as much a critique of colonial representation as it is of the manners and modes of fighting back a...
Political Conservatism and Religious Reformation in Iran (1905-1979)
This book is a theoretical inquiry on the relation of the body politic with the religious movements in the time between the Constitutional Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran; it illustrates speculative and historical analyses on the relationship of state, religion, and socio-political status in the late Qajar dynasty (1905-1925) and the whole Pahlavi monarchy. Particularly, it examines the applicability of “liberal conservatism” to the era of the last Shah of Iran. The thesis defines the term political conservatism in accord with Edmund Burke’s philosophy. It deals next with the definition of religious reformation, the peculiar characteristics of Islam, the Shi'ite political...
Post-Islamist Political Theory
This book deals with the concept of post-Islamism from a mainly philosophical perspective, using political liberalism as elaborated by John Rawls as the key interpretive tool. What distinguishes this book from most scholarship in Iranian studies is that it primarily deals with the projects of Iranian intellectuals from a normative perspective as the concept is understood by analytical philosophers. The volume includes analyses of the strengths and weakness of the arguments underlying each thinker’s ideas, rather than looking for their historical and sociological origins, genealogy, etc. Each chapter develops a particular conjectural argument for the possibility of an overlapping consensus ...
My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
In the first anthology of its kind, Lila Azam Zanganeh argues that although Iran looms large in the American imagination, it is grossly misunderstood-seen either as the third pillar of Bush's infamous "axis of evil" or as a nation teeming with youths clamoring for revolution. This collection showcases the real scope and complexity of Iran through the work of a stellar group of contributors-including Azar Nafisi and with original art by Marjane Satrapi. Their collective goal is to counter the many existing cultural and political clichés about Iran. Some of the pieces concern feminism, sexuality, or eroticism under the Islamic Republic; others are unorthodox political testimonies or about rac...
