God and juggernaut
Subtitle: Iran's intellectual encounter with modernity
By: Farzin Vahdat.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Nationalism -- Iran; Historiography -- Iran; Religion and state; Islam and politics -- Iran; Iran -- Intellectual life; Iran -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of modernity; title: Iran's experiment with modernity; title: The dawn of modernity in Iran : positivist subjectivity and universalizable subjectivity; title: The eclipse of universalizable subjectivity and the quest for a collective subject; title: Islamic discourses and modernity; title: Islamic revolutionary thought : the self as mediated subjectivity; title: Postrevolutionary discourses : the contraction and expansion of subjectivity.