The discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a radical cosmopolitan

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 -- ...

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1. Verfasser: Mirsepassi, Ali 1950- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung: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
"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 romanticized 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 twentieth-century Iranian nationalism. In cultural spaces like "Donya," Arani and his contemporaries engaged vibrant debates about national identity, history, and Iran's place in the modern world. In exploring Arani's short but remarkable life and writings, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the image of Interwar Iran as dominated by the Pahlavi state to uncover fertile intellectual spaces in which civic nationalism flourished"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xvi, 209 Seiten
ISBN:9781503629141

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