Gibson Bryan - An Analysis Of Hamid Dabashi's Iran A People Interrupted - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Hamid Dabashi's 2007 Iran: A People Interrupted is simultaneously subtle passionate polarizing and polemical. A concise account of Iranian history from the early 19th - century onward Dabashi's book uses his incisive analytical skills as a basis for creating a persuasive argument against the views of Iran that predominate in the West. In Dabashi's view Western approaches to Iran have been colored time and time again by the assumption that it is somehow trapped between regressive tradition and progressive modernity. The reality he argues is quite the opposite: Iran has its own distinctive ideology of modernity which is nevertheless opposed to many Western ideals. In order to prove his point Dabashi draws on a lifetime's experience of literary criticism to analyse the relationship between Iran's intellectual and political elites over two centuries. His analysis provides the key evidence for his reasoning by teasing out the implicit assumptions that underly the texts and people he examines. Looking beneath the surface of the evidence Dabashi finds time and time again the traces of a uniquely Iranian notion of modernity that is quite at odds with its Western counterpart.
Title: An Analysis Of Hamid Dabashi's Iran A People Interrupted
Author(s): Gibson Bryan
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912128402
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 7/15/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Political Science & Theory