商品簡介
The principal aim of this collection of 12 essays exploring the intellectual and cultural life of contemporary Iran, according to editor Jahanbegloo (Department for Contemporary Studies at the Cultural Research Bureau, Iran), "is to diminish the dim spots surrounding the history of the encounter of Iran with modernity and its political, social, and cultural consequences by overcoming the fallacious dichotomy of tradition/modernity and the related evolutionist view on unilinear progress of cultures." Among the topics addressed are the relevance of John Locke to social change in Iran, discourse of modernity and theology, the engagement with religious reform by the public intelligentsia, and ideas of "Islamist" women activists. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Ramin Jahanbegloo is head of the Department for Contemporary Thought at the Cultural Research Bureau, Iran, and assistant professor at Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London.
