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Iran's Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi
Iran's Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi












Ata'ollah Mohajerani: philosophers need power 13.

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Mansour Hashemi: Fardid pioneered post-Bergson philosophy in Iran 12.

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Mohammad Reza Jozi: Fardid's philosophy was not political 11. Seyyed Ali Mirfattah: 'I admired his anti-capitalism and his anti-Americanism' 10. Ehsan Shari'ati: Fardid misunderstood Heidegger 9. Behrouz Farnou: Fardid's thought was post-modern 8. Ali Reza Meybodi: Fardid was 'Dante's Inferno' 7. Abbas Amanat: Fardid whom I came to know 6. Ramin Jahanbeglu: Fardid was at the center of Fardiddiyeh (Fardid and Fardiddiyeh) 5. Daryush Ashuri: Fardid was not very religious 4. Hossein Nasr: for Fardid, Corbin was worthless, but, the Shah was great 3. Conversations on Fardid's Life and Thought: 2. Ahmad Fardid and His Legacies: Introduction Part II. Iran's Troubled Modernity Paperback edition by Ali Mirsepassi Combining a sociological framework with the realities of lived experience, he examines Iran's recent and astonishing upheavals, experiments, and mass mobilizations.

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Through these accounts, Mirsepassi cuts to the nerve of how deadly political 'authenticity movements' take hold of modern societies and spread their ideology. The Fardid phenomenon was unique to the Iranian story, and yet contributed to a broader twentieth-century Heideggerian tradition that marked the political destiny of other countries under a similar ideological sway. Each interview in turn sheds light on Iran's twentieth-century intellectual and political self-construction and highlights Fardid's important role and influence in the creation of Iranian modernity. Using new materials about Fardid's intellectual biography and interviews with thirteen individuals, Ali Mirsepassi pieces together the striking story of Fardid's life and intellectual legacy. Ahmad Fardid (1910-94), the 'anti-Western' philosopher known to many as the Iranian Heidegger, became the self-proclaimed philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, famously coining the term 'Westoxication'.














Iran's Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi